Theme: Love

Value: Love and Devotion

Poem 1: To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

Poem 2: Life in a Love by Robert Browning

Comparision:

1. Both poems are about their love to their beloved

2. Both poems show affection to their beloved

The poet is using a great example of a paradox, *paradox is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. “if two were one, then surely we.”

The poet shows his affection towards his beloved in these lines “So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth” Showing that as long as the world contains both of them, he is the one loving while his beloved is unwilling.

Contrast:

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Life in a Love

Dedication To husband

To beloved

The poet is describing about her marriage life and her love towards her husband.

The poet is describing about him pursuing his beloved

In this poem, the poet tells about the value of her love when she compare her love with some other thing in these lines “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense”

Meanwhile, in this poem, the poet mainly describing about his will in pursuing his beloved.

The poet challenged other women whether they too have the same love that she experiences. In lines 2-4

The poet describe about how if he failed to pursue his love and the people will laugh at him.