A Different Point of View

It is love, uncontrollable love, and sometimes lust.

 In Variation on the Word Sleep the narrator depicts the love she feels towards this man, her lover.  She wishes to be inside of him and his dreams; she wants to watch him at his most vulnerable state. She is in love.

In A Monorhyme for the Shower a man is watching his wife shower and he is reminiscing on their relationship, he studies her body in a very sexual but sensual way. He is not gawking but staring in amazement.

In both of these poems Variation on the Word Sleep and A Monorhyme for the Shower the narrators explain their love and desire for the other person. In Variation of the Word Sleep she wants to protect him from the bad and evil you could say. She is willing to follow him into his darkest fear and face it and pull him through. She is accepting of her love and it seems she just wants it to be known, wants to be needed “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and necessary” (Atwood 103). It’s as if she doesn’t care to have her love acknowledged its perfect as is. In a Monorhyme for a Shower he’s and she are both aware of the love the history between the two. He sees the ware and tare the years and relationship have had on her body and he admires it and sees the beauty. He is looking at her and explaining her body and how he still has boyish feelings and wants to do things with her and maybe to her.

In both poems there are two narrators who are expressing their love and in very different ways, one in just pure love and admiration but still coming from a genuine place. Being able to explain her in the shower and explain desires and not come off as a pig is hard and he did it. The other narrator under a spell completely taken by another human’s existence. She explains her love in soft words and dual meaning words makes you think about all sorts of meanings. She uses the nature to show her love is something that comes completely natural to her and she embraces it.

By reading both poems by man and woman you see different point of views on the admiration of their significant others and the way they love one another. How they express it and how it makes them feel. Both seem to get a since of gratitude from the love they have for their companions. Something that humbles them and makes them aware of someone else’s being meaning so much to their being.