How do the poets treat the theme of love in the poems you have studied?

The third stanza shows that the poet "will not run out"; that their love is eternal. The poet includes many similes and metaphors in the poem, including "let me be your electric heater" meaning that he will keep the reader warm. Also the poet mentions that he wants to keep things between him and the reader locked together by saying "let me be your setting lotion". When the poet speaks of the "deep deep deep deep de deep deep" he is talking about sonar scanning the oceans trying to find the end of his love.

The poem ends with the line, "I wanna be yours", the title of the poem, again emphasizing the poets love for the reader.

"The Thickness of Ice" by Liz Loxley is all about the progressions of relationships. It contains six verses. Two at the start, middle and end. Each verse contains brackets; in these brackets it tells you a little bit more about each verse.

The metaphor of the poem starts in the second verse when it says

"At first we'll be like skaters" referring to the readers as skaters. The poet writes about the skaters testing the ice and edging closer and closer to the centre of the lake. The lake in this case would be their relationship which they are both eager to conquer.

The third stanza talks about their love starting to die down and it tells us of how they are not as "anxious to impress" each other anymore and how they are not as in love with each other as the skaters are towards winning gold medals. Instead of about how the relationship is steadily improving the writer writes about how the ice thaws, and the warning signs that the relationship is not working were ignored.

The last two verse in the poem talks about how they will meet as "acquaintances" "though secretly we will be enemies"

This tells us about how they will react to each other if they pass on the street after their relationship is well over. It also refers to the ex-lovers as children. "Having learnt the thinness of ice,"

I like this poem in comparison to the other two because of the metaphors and similes it uses the whole way throughout the poem. The way in which the poet has referred to the lovers as skaters is, really unusual.

In the other poems there are also metaphors and similes used but they aren't the same ones stretched throughout the poem like the poet has done in

"The thickness off ice"

The poem "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a sonnet which contains three quatrains and a couplet.

The first quatrain opens with the title of the poem, "How do I love thee?" putting the idea of the poem straight into the reader's mind. Immediately after, the line, "Let me count the ways," shows that there are many different ways in which the poet can love the reader.

It is evident through the line "I love thee" that is repeated in the poem many times that the poet truly loves the reader.

Innocence is emphasized in the poem, with the words "freely" and "purely". This ties in with a hint of religion, shown through the mention of "praise" and "faith".

The last line, "And if God chooses, I shall but love thee better after death," shows that the poet loves the reader more than life itself, and that their love extends beyond the physical reality of life.

These two poems are different in a variety of ways, the main way being the context. The first poem presents a more modern view of love, and the second a more traditional view in the form of a sonnet.

I picked these three because they were completely different from each other. The way they contrast is unusual. I like the layout of the poem "I wanna be yours" I think because it is a more modern style poem it appeals to me more than the poem "How do I love thee"

I picked it though, because I also liked the layout of "How do I love thee". It is very repetitive and is in this way similar to "I wanna be yours".

All the poems provoke a sense of intense love for both the poets and the readers and it is evident that both poets love the reader immensely.