Comparing Sara Teasdale's When I Am Not With You

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All three of the poems and short stories I chose have similarities. The authors in all three stories/poem are similar because they talk about love in many different ways. In the poem, When I Am Not with You," written in 1922 by Sara Teasdale, the narrator is explain how lonely she feels when she 's not with her other half. Right here she 's already stating how much she loves him and miss him. In the short story, "Falling in Love," written somewhere between 1823 - 1904 by Grace Greenwood, she 's talking about what falling in love means. How you know when you fall in love and how beautiful and awful it can be. “Song of Love’s Coming”, written in 1924 by Arthur Symons is poem that explains how you can fall in love without being aware. But, in this poem the arthur is talking about the love a parent can have with their child. All three sources are great and they all talk about love in so many different ways.
Love, what is love? Love is having genuine affection towards someone. That love can be towards your girlfriend/wife, boyfriend/husband, a family member, a pet, etc. Love can be to infinity, it doesn’t have a time, a date, or place to grow or when it can be gone/lose. In the short story, “Falling in Love” by Grace Greenwood, the speaker explains how love can be true, deep,
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He always tells her how beautiful she is and how much he loves her. “"Listen to me, then, my love," he rejoined. "As by the apple Adam lost his paradise, so by the orange have I found mine. What, still mystified? Ah, bless you, and bless all crippled old orange women, say I!" Albert tells her this and she blushed and cry of happiness. She use to be ashamed at what people had to say, Im guessing because he was younger, but know she don 't care any more. She is living her love free and happy. This short story remind me of someone I know who is very close to me and had a similar situation. What a great

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