I Want To Die While You Love Me

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For this assignment we have to compare three poems; for mine I ended up choosing “I Want to Die While You Love Me” by Georgia Douglas Johnson, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” from play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and the third is “ Song for a Dark Girl” by Langston Hughes. When you first read these three poems they really don’t have much in common, but once you begin to compare them all to one another you really start to apprehend what’s being written. Comparing poems has many benefits; you can discover different writing styles, different emotions the literature makes you feel, along with experiencing many different types of rhythm and rhyme.
The first poem “I Want to Die While You Love Me” is short and sweet. At the beginning of each stanza Georgia repeats the line “I want to die while you love me,” although in each one she expresses a different emotion or more so a different viewpoint of passing away with or without being loved. She uses a certain type of rhyme in her writing, every other line has a perfect end rhyme. For example:
I want to die while you love me,
While yet you hold me fair,
While laughter lies upon my lips
And lights are in my hair. – (Johnson)
She rhymes the words fair and hair, and then later on the words see and be, live and give, …show more content…

In the first stanza the narrator tells about their love and the things she cherishes in it, things that make them happy and fell loved by someone. They take a turn in the second stanza by starting to explain their reasoning in not wanting to pass without having a love; it’s as if they’re afraid to experience what it’s like to be alone and on your own. They don’t want their love for each other to grow old and die out, Georgia carries these emotions into the third stanza as well. At the end Georgia goes back to talking about the narrators love and how they want it to end, with one last passionate kiss to send them

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