Love Has No Boundaries

Love Has No Boundaries
Hunter says that "Comparing poems on the same subject or with a similar theme or tone can lead to a clearer understanding of each individual poem and can refine our responses to the subtleties of individual differences" (42-43). There are slight variations of tone in the poems, “Pause” and “Leavetaking.” In “Pause,” the child is coming home from kindergarten and filling the house with her laughter. There is a sense of joy, and the child’s presence alone illuminates her father. In “Leavetaking,” the son is venturing out on his own for the first time, and saying goodbye to his father. He is outgrowing his childhood home, and is on his way out into the real world. The two poems vary in the directions that the characters lives are leading them, but are consistent in the love each father has for their child.
The author of “Leavetaking” is able to clearly express to his audience the strong love that the father and son have for one ano...