Love is like a...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Dream

Love, if I weep it will not matter,
And if you laugh I shall not care;
Foolish am I to think about it,
But it is good to feel you there.
Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking, --
White and awful the moonlight reached
Over the floor, and somewhere, somewhere,
There was a shutter loose, -- it screeched!
Swung in the wind, -- and no wind blowing! --
I was afraid, and turned to you,
Put out my hand to you for comfort, --
And you were gone! Cold, cold as dew,
Under my hand the moonlight lay!
Love, if you laugh I shall not care,
But if I weep it will not matter, --
Ah, it is good to feel you there!

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I believe that the author that this poem is about how the speaker feels about his/her loss of love. Once he/she has lost love, there lies an inevitable battle inside between still loving the ex or hating him/her. The speaker talks about the uselessness of crying over it but also about how good he/she felt when love was there, and how miserable life is now.

The metaphor in this poem is that the speaker is seeing his/her loss of love as a lonely night filled with unwanted memories. Dreams of love passes and he/she doesn't want them, for he/she wants to forget about ever loving the other person. But this love brought so much comfort, and on such a scary, lonely night, it's this comfort that he/she needs. Wallowing in love and hatred, he/she is left to loneliness.

Love is like the sky. You can hate for its rain and snow, but you'll always have the sunset to bring you back to happiness. In life, there will always be disagreements and problems between people. When two people are in love, they will still share troubles, but there will always be that special something there that created and shaped their love for each other in the first place.