Love poems

The poem shows different attitudes towards something that has happened between two partners. They disagree about the effect of something that has damaged their relationship. In the first stanza he compares the rift in their relationship to a wound. The use of the noun implies that something painful has occurred. The use of alliteration ‘skin slowly’, give the impression that they will need time and patience. On the opposite side of the page we have the woman’s honest and practical viewpoint. She believes that the relationship is permanently damages. On the surface it may appear all right but underneath there will always be pain and resentment ‘there is always a scar, a permanent reminder’ she believes that one never truly recovers. The feelings of love have changed.

Once again the poet has used an extended metaphor in the following stanza ‘observe the scab of the scald’. The use of alliteration, the repetition of the ‘s’ sound suggests that angry words...