Both poems.

After reading both poems I prefer Shakespeare's poem over Millay's. Shakespeare talks about the strengths of love and that it should come naturally without a person having to change who they are. He also talks about when you love someone you are there for them through the rough times. I understand this from the line, "That looks on tempests and is never shaken," (6). For me it signifies that love will be standing tall through the rocky times that every relationship faces. That you can count on the person you love being there for you.

    Millay's poem was a little different, it talks about how time has past and that the lady's beauty has faded. She misses all the attention that she used to receive by many a man. So many that she can't remember them all. What surprises me about this poem is that she is so open about being promiscuous given the year that the poem is set in. In 1923 I thought that ladies were supposed to behave like ladies  and that their sexual encounters were not supposed to be talked about in public.