Compare And Contrast And True Love

Love means unconditional acceptance. Love is the first feeling we feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way. Love is when we go out to eat and give somebody most of our french fries without making them give us any of theirs. Love could be simply putting the toilet seat down, or love is being swept off our feet. Love is the attachment that results from deeply appreciating another 's goodness. Love is a sensation that magically generates when Mr. or Ms. Right appears or love can be expressed by saying nothing because they already know how exactly they feel for each other. The poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet and “True Love” by Sharon Olds explore their awareness of true love in a deep and romantic form. Even

Despite this, the speaker of Bradstreet’s poem is convinced that love is not only a form of physical, sexual, and emotional fantasy, and the existence of this are momentarily, but also it lasts beyond their life on earth. She say’s, “when we live no more, we may live ever” (12). This indicates that the speaker is thinking about love after life, not only the love before death. She believes that concept of love is what we search for all of our lives. Once it is found, it lasts forever. Even though they are not alive anymore, the two loving soul holds together the essence of love and they get reunited after death. Likewise, Olds points out on the graphic everyday details of marriage with a powerful romantic approach. The speaker of her poem says, “I can not see beyond it, I can not see beyond it” (25). While the speaker is willing to show and discuss the ordinary details of her love affair (such as middle of the night after making love they looking at each other in complete friendship and wondering what others would be doing or being in the bathroom at the same time), she is not willing to face the outside cruel world and accept that everything has an end such as love. These show that both poets are concerned about love beyond the acceptance of