This poem brings out the feeling of love expressed in terms of a lover who feels the delight and joy in describing love drawing its parallels with many of our day to day chores, objects and events around us.
Love has been described as a strange thing which gives the two people in love a weird feeling. Love has been suggested as a fan club that has only 2 fans meaning that it’s a liking that happens between two people, ‘walking holding painstained hands’ is symbolic of Lovers keeping together even when they have to face oppression or atrocities of the world. Love gives them the strength to bear any hardships that come in their way because they are together.
The phrase ‘Love is…” has been repeated at the beginning of each stanza is to emphasize and to highlight the feeling of love explicitly and clearly. Some simple things that people love doing together bring them happiness and cheer. Fish and chips look like a special thing on winter nights, just because it gives them some time to be together and to feel the love for each other. Love has been compared to a blanket that has many exciting things to hold. Love makes you feel so excited that you spend sleepless nights dreaming of the one you love.
The mesmerizing feeling of love has been compared to gifts on a Christmas shop which are always attractive and appealing. Love makes you feel joyous as if it were some kind of present. Love has a magical effect which makes you feel on cloud nine. You feel that you are on the top of the world and that everything around you is perfect. Love brings great moments for the lovers to enjoy. The rhythm of love goes on even when the music stops. In other words, love makes you feel alive and is eternal.
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Love is also what brings the two lovers close and results in physically intimacy. The warmth of love is something that only two lovers can sense. Lovers find it too difficult to separate from each other. Love gives them a sense of belonging and a reason to be always together. They feel the pain in separation and do not want to wave goodbye when they have to leave at the dawn.
Finally, love has been given a very substantial meaning. Love has been called ‘you’ and ‘me’ referring to the two lovers. Personification of love has given it a significant presence. Love makes a lover feel imprisoned in the jail of Love. In other words, Love keeps you go back to your lover again and again. Even when the two lovers are physically separated from each other, they can feel the presence of Love in their lives. The feeling of love is so great that it doesn’t know any bounds. It transcends all boundaries of physical existence and makes the person feel the presence of their lover even they are not close to them.