The woman in ‘Our Love Now’ portrays their love as dead, while the man portrays their love as getting stronger:
‘The tree is forever dead
Such is our love’
That is what the woman says about their relationship after they had an argument or something. The man says:
‘The breach in us can be mended’
The man thinks that whatever has happened between them has just made their love stronger but the woman believes very different to what he thinks.
At the start of every paragraph the man seems to be hanging onto the past while the women seems to be thinking of how they are going to end up in the near future. The woman says:
‘She said’
The man says:
‘I said’
This shows that the man thinks that everything is going to be alright while the woman is wondering what is going to happen to their relationship in the near future.
The poem shows what men think about relationships and love in the general. It also shows the woman’s thoughts about relationships and love. The poem shows a typical mans views on line five and six:
‘The cut will mend, and such
is our relationship’
While the woman’s views about the same thing is:
‘There is always a scar
a permanent reminder’
The woman’s views are that once there was a boundary between her and her boyfriend that is overcome, there will always be a painful reminder of that with a scar.
The second poem I have chosen is ‘I wanna be yours’. This poem is designed to be performed on stage because it is set out like a script and that it has no punctuation.
This poem makes sound unique and something very special that only happens once in your life. This is shown in the language that the author has used. The author uses repetition throughout the poem. He repeats:
‘I wanna be yours’
And
‘Let me be’
This is very romantic and makes the reader want to read on because the reader wants to know what else he is going to say.
Most of the things he says are very corny and funny for example:
‘Let me be your dreamboat
when you wanna sail away’
This has a secret message and that is that he will be there for her what ever happens.
There are hidden messages throughout and these are usually in the couplets. There is also a regular rhyming scheme in each verse that is very good because it is very repetitive throughout the verse.
The third poem I have chosen is ‘To His Coy Mistress’. This is a pre- twentieth century poem. This poem has the same outline as ‘I wanna be yours’ by showing that the man is in love with a women and he is trying to persuade her to be his lover.
This poem is very romantic towards the woman that the man in the poem is after because every woman who reads the poem secretly wishes that they could be treated in the way that the man is treating the woman.
This poem also has little hidden messages towards the reader and the woman, in the poem it says:
‘The grave’s a fine and private place.
But none, I think do there embrace
Now, therefore, while the youthful hue.’
This is telling us that the man is saying we are going to die anyway, so life your life while you can and give me a chance.
‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘I wanna be yours’ have the same outline of the poems. This is shown by both texts having a man in love with a woman. The men are trying everything to persuade the women in the poems to give them a chance.
‘I wanna be yours’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ portray love as something special and everlasting while ‘Our Love Now’ portrays love as a part time thing. However, it concentrates more of the bad side of love rather than the good side of love and this is shown in the layout of the poem, it is layed out as if it was an argument.
