Join Mario as he begins his epic (and slightly stressful) quest to find his true love, Princess Peach.

1. Mario’s Love Life: An Epic Journey
By: Abel Haynes

2. Oh Peach, why must your love
be a hassle?
I trampled King Bowser; now
he is dead!
Why must you be in another
castle?
I should have been a good
plumber instead.

3. Now I must conquer seven
more bases,
So that I can find my lovable
girl.
But you are not there, there
are no traces!
“Mama mia!” My head starts
to whirl.

4. Could this be true? Is the
Princess okay?
Hopefully she did not suffer
from death.
Did she find someone else to
save her day?
I can no longer even take a
breath.

5. I found her! I found her! She is just fine.
She is safe! She is safe! And she’s still mine.

6. Reflection
I chose Mario and Peach to be the character’s of my love poem because they
are considered childish cartoon characters, which makes describing their
love for each other to be more comical than that of two real people who
are in a relationship. In addition to this, I already had a fair amount of
prior knowledge about the Mario franchise, which made creating my
poem easier. The tone of my poem to is distressed and hopeless because it
emphasizes all of the things that Mario suffers through in order to find his
true love, which is a comical way to think about Mario’s adventures. My
poem emphasizes the determination of Mario and the overall absence of
the princess to show how Mario works so hard to earn the princess’s love,
whereas all princess Peach has to do is wait for Mario to find her. My
entire sonnet is an example of situational irony because one would expect
Mario to be depicted as a brave hero who conquers all his foes with ease;
he is instead depicted as a stressed out lover who grow weary of
conquering kingdom after kingdom without finding his princess. “I can no
longer even take a breath” is a hyperbole because Mario could still breath,
he was just very worried. Making each line 10 syllables was a challenge for
me because there were some things that I had to insert/delete things in
my story, which was not what I would prefer. I enjoyed this activity
because it allowed me to make a humorous spinoff of one of my favorite
games.

7. Image Sources
http://www.picturesinboxes.com/2013/12/16/your-princess-is-in-another-
castle/
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review/1900-6100213/
http://spudcomics.com/tag/mario/
http://www.theandrewblog.net/2012/04/25/the-princess-is-in-another-castle-
braid-roger-ebert-and-whether-video-games-can-be-art/
http://www.mylionking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=85&t=11374&start=10
http://www.mariowiki.com/File:Gma_amada_mario_26.jpg
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ccadominyo-d8znj6e.jpg
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