"Variations on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood describes the word love as a feeling, desire, and lust. As soon as this poem begins with "I would like to watch you sleeping" (line1), love is behind it. When a person is sleeping, they're defenseless. So when the narrator asks to watch them sleep, they're also begging for permission to love them. That's why with the very next line "which may not happen"(line2) expresses that the narrators wish to let their love, love them, will not happen. In this poem you see actions or thoughts only one would do for the person they admire the most. The narrator did well with this line that is also my favorite from this poem "towards the cave where you must descend, towards your worst fear"(lines11-12). This line explains the narrator would enter their loved ones dream to protect them from nightmares or their worst fears. Only a person deeply in love would be honored to do what ever they can to protect and keep their desire.
"Hate Poem" by Julie Sheehan has so many "hates" but really is about love. The poem is about a female due to the fact that she states "My breasts relaxing in their holster from morning to night hate you"(line19). She's in denial about the fact that she loves the person she wrote this for. I would say more obessed, rather than love. Every single line in this poem has to do with her physically, emotionally, and just her life in general. And in every single line, she harshly uses the word hate for the other person she's writing to. This clearly suggests that everything about her or her life, reminds her of the person she "hates". Obviously she's constantly thinking of her other. "My lungs, duplicitous twins, expand with the utter validity of my hate, which can never have enough of you"(line23) explains littearly, that with every breath, she's thinking about this person. It's like she's also afraid to use the word love cause she's so in denial, she replaces it with hate.
Both these poems express love in different ways yet go about it a similar way. Both of these poems are hopeless. "Variation of the Word Sleep" is hopeless, because the narrator is asking, desiring, and hoping for love. "Hate Poem" is hopeless, because she's too far in deep, yet in denial. Both of these narrators are crazy in love. They just go about it in a completely different way. "Variation on the Word Sleep" puts their pride aside and dives in for love, while "Hate Poem" puts up this huge pride wall, claiming it's hate. Both of these poems go in depth with the meaning of love with out actually saying it. Between the lines of both the poems are the some of the true meanings of love. "Variation of the Word Sleep" is all about being their others protector, wanting to just be, and do everything for and with them.All through out "Hate Poem" is where she's always thinking of her other, and how everything reminds her of this person. Doesn't both of these poems express love well? With all their ways of expressing the meaning of true love, is it real love to you?
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