Proposals!

Was recently chatting about amazing proposals in movies we love. And it was sad that I could not find the words. But here is the homework!

Dil Chahta Hai:
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**Shalini's wedding to Rohit**
Akash: Hi Shalini
Shalini: Hi
Akash: Mujhse Shaadi Karogi?
Akash: Agar main kahoon ki main tumse pyar karta hoon tab bhi nahin?
**Rohit walks over - The coolest stare, and he stops**
Akash:
Shalini, main tumse aur sirf tumse pyar karta hoon. Meri har saans, meri har dhadkan, mere har pal main tum ho aur bas tum ho shalini, Mujhe yakin hai ki main sirf isliye janma hoon ki tumse pyar kar sakoon, aur tum sirf isliye ki ek din meri ban jao.
Tum meri ho shalini, agar tum apne dil se pooch logi to jaan logi, ki main sach keh raha hoon

Runaway Bride:
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She returns to the balcony and hands him the box.
IKE (cont'd) What's this?
MAGGIE These are for you.
He opens it. It's her running shoes.
IKE Used?
MAGGIE They're mine. I'm turning in my running shoes to you.
IKE This is getting serious.
Now she is glowing at him, shining with the full force of her.
MAGGIE And one more thing. I know it's hard to believe there could be more. Um...
Maggie glances around and spots a DECK CHAIR, which she turns so it is facing the city lights. Then she softly says:
MAGGIE (cont'd) If you could have a seat, please.
Ike sits. Maggie takes the box from him and puts it aide. And then she gets down on one knee.
IKE (laughing) Oh my God. No.
Maggie smiles up at him. Ike tips his head back and covers his eyes with his hand.
MAGGIE No, no -- don't hide your face, this only happens once in a lifetime. It's definitely a first to me, and you're not going to want to miss it.
He smiles as he looks at Maggie.
MAGGIE (cont'd) I love you, Homer Eisenhower Graham. Will you marry me?
Ike swallows, overwhelmed, overjoyed, and scared shitless.
IKE Maggie, I gotta think about this a little bit.
Maggie hops cheerfully back to her feet.
MAGGIE (cheerful) Good.
She gets off her knees and stands.
MAGGIE (cont'd) I was hoping you'd say that.
IKE (laughing) You were not.
MAGGIE I was, because if you said "yes" right away, I wouldn't get to say this next part. And I've been practicing it. (pulling up a chair and sitting) Ready?
IKE I'm listening.
MAGGIE (tenderly) "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both oof us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life. Because I know in my heart -- you're the only one for me".
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Her Praise - ah, the subtilty of words.

Whoever said that understated emotions are moot, needs to get in touch with Yeats’ poetry...
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HER PRAISE
SHE is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I have gone about the house, gone up and down
As a man does who has published a new book
Or a young girl dressed out in her new gown,
And though I have turned the talk by hook or crook
Until her praise should be the uppermost theme,
A woman spoke of some new tale she had read,
A man confusedly in a half dream
As though some other name ran in his head.
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I will talk no more of books or the long war
But walk by the dry thorn until I have found
Some beggar sheltering from the wind, and there
Manage the talk until her name come round.
If there be rags enough he will know her name
And be well pleased remembering it, for in the old days,
Though she had young men's praise and old men's blame,
Among the poor both old and young gave her praise.

Poet: W.B.Yeats
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/

I have to take a bow to this amazing poet! The romanticism is obvious, but it is the humility of the lady being praised and the humility of the praise for this lady that is more striking. How else could you have captured the emotion of what the lady had done, without losing its essence while describing it. Just bloody amazing. Why can't american business schools learn a thing or two from Yeats. Today's world; always about small, simple broken out sentences. Business communication boys and girls, thats what will put food on your plate!