Poetry Themes

Poetry Themes

Marriage
1. Love and a Question
2. One Flesh
  1. "lying apart now, each in a separate bed"
  2. "They hardly ever touch"
3. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
4. Talking in Bed
5. Timer
6. Long Finish
Adultery
1. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
2. Wild Oats
3. Punishment
Sexuality
1. I being born a woman and distressed
2. One Flesh
  1. "chastity faces them, a destination"
3. Wild Oats
4. Talking in Bed
Time
1. A quoi bon dire
  1. "Seventeen years ago you said/ Something that sounded like goodbye
    1. "Time itself's a feather/ Touching them gently"
  2. "as I grow stiff and cold"
2. One Flesh
  1. "girl dreaming of childhood"
  2. "whole lives were a preparation"
3. Meeting Point
  1. "Time was away and somewhere else"
    1. "The bell was silent in the air"
4. Talking in Bed
5. Vergissmeinnicht
6. Timer
7. The Love Poem
8. Long Finish
9. To John Donne
Women
1. I being born a woman and distressed
2. A quoi bon dire
3. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
4. Wild Oats
Men
1. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
2. Wild Oats
3. Punishment
4. Long Finish
5. To John Donne
Boundaries to love
1. Love and a Question
  1. "harboring woe in the bridal house"
2. One Flesh
3. Meeting Point
4. Talking in Bed
5. Wild Oats
6. Timer
7. A quoi bon dire
Gestures of love
1. Meeting Point
  1. "two people with the one pulse"
  2. "not caring if the markets crash"
2. Vergissmeinnicht
3. Timer
4. To John Donne
5. After the Lunch
6. Love and a Question
  1. "wished her heart in a case of gold/ And pinned with a silver pin
Society
1. I being born a woman and distressed
2. Wild Oats
3. Talking in Bed
4. Punishment
5. Vergissmeinnicht
6. The Love Poem
7. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Expectations
1. I being born a woman and distressed
2. Love and a Question
  1. "bridal house"
    1. "bride in the dusk alone/ Bent over the open fire
3. Wild Oats
4. Punishment
5. The Love Poem
6. Long Finish
7. After the Lunch
8. I being born a Woman and distressed
  1. "needs and notions of my kind"
    1. I find this frenzy insufficient reason/ For conversation when we meet again

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