Pub #5

 

In the equations of love all possibilities are endless and logical.  I choose two poems from the Love Album, “To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet, and “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” by W.H. Auden. Also I have two poems of my own, “The Colors of Love”, and “The Two II’s of Beauty, I will compare these four poems with each other. The theme of unconditional love is portrayed in Anne Bradstreet’s poem, To My dear and Loving Husband” and also in my poem “The Two II’s of Beauty”. The theme in my other poem, The Colors of Love, is the same as W.H Auden’s poem “Stop the clocks, cut off the telephone”, it is the loneliness.

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem unconditional love is the theme that is portrayed in this, as well as in my poem, “The Two II’s of beauty. In Bradstreet’s poem she is expressing her love, because to her it is as precious of gold and no river can quench her thirst. Her husband is not compared to anyone else, no one can replace him. In my poem, there is a girl I used to like very much, I thought I would be with her someday. This never happened, but I did have strong feelings of love towards her, I used to spend a lot of time with her in college. I described her hair, her favorite color, aspirations that could have happened if she would have taken a leap of faith with me.

The tone of the poems are gentle and smooth in nature. The mood that they create is flowing very delicately like a river that feeds an ocean. In Bradstreet’s poem she says, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let’s persevere, that when we live no more we may live ever.” (Bradstreet pg. 471)  She is showing us that love can conquer mountains and ever after death love lives on forever.

In the poem, “Stop all the clocks, cut the telephone”, and also in my poem “The Colors of Love”, the theme of loneliness is running rampart. It is like the world ended for this author when he or she wrote this piece. In the poem he wanted the dogs to stop barking, silence al the pianos, and bring out the coffin and let everyone mourn. “The stars are not wanted now, put out every one, pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.” (Auden pg. 470) This is really a depressing poem and it is showing the loneliness of this author. In my poem my heart is separated in two, because I like two different girls. In the end I don’t get to go out with either one and this made me very lonely. In my poem I say, “Without the one, my days are gray.” I am very heartbroken because I don’t have a girl to love and this caused me to be very depressed.

The tone of Auden’s poem and my poem, “The Colors of Love” was the same with depression and loneliness. I am so glad I met the right girl, because back when I wrote this poem I was lost without a paddle. My life wasn’t going anywhere, my current girlfriend turned my life around. I thank god I have her in my life. Auden has the world coming to an end in the poem, with everything be destroyed or turned off. His love is gone and never coming back, this is what I believe the author is wrote about.