To Be In Love To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look at things Through his eyes. A cardinal is red. A sky is blue. Suddenly you know he knows too. He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too much to bear. You cannot look in his eyes Because your pulse must not say What must not be said. When he Shuts a door- Is not there_ Your arms are water. And you are free With a ghastly freedom. You are the beautiful half Of a golden hurt. You remember and covet his mouth To touch, to whisper on. Oh when to declare Is certain Death! Oh when to apprize Is to mesmerize, To see fall down, the Column of Gold, Into the commonest ash. To be in Love by Gwendolyn Brooks is simply what the title says, how it feels when someone falls in love, the positive and negative. The speaker of this can be implied to be no other than Mrs. Brooks or a young woman. Within this poem, the speaker is giving their experience of being in love, how it feels to be in love, and how it feels when the one you are in love with leaves you. As a result, the tone of this poem is perceived to be in a sense of fondness and affection (to be fond of and affectionate). The speaker talks vividly about how she feels about her lover; for instance, she says, “He is not there but you know you are tasting together the winter, or a light spring weather.” She is telling us that this affection has allow her to be one with her lover, mentally and emotionally. In addition to this, the author tells how it feel when their lover leaves them, "His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too much to bear." So, it is appropriate to say that the theme is that love is such a wonderful and powerful thing to possess. It is powerful because with love, we will be able to grow as a person and that will lead in us being a better person. "In yourself you stretch, you are well." However, Mrs. Brooks only makes the theme present to the reader if the reader comprehends the poem line to line.
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