In Let me not to the marriage of true minds, takes me back to Corinthians 13:1-13 in the bible. The verse talks about love and this poem also talks about love. Deep down inside I know everyone wants that ideal love in a marriage or relationship. The kinda love that can survive whatever hardship life may dish out. A love that can't be tempest or shaken., meaning no one can come between or even try to end that love. He stated that, "it is the star to every wand'ring bark." I think the star is a guide for lovers, it may also represents love. Love can make couples do and feel things they never thought they could feel for another. In the end love never change, people change. They died or that love dies.
In What lips, my lips have kissed, and where and why,right away I feel as thought the speaker is a man trying to remember past sexual encounters. Towards the middle I picture a woman. She speaks of a time when it was raining and she would hear a tap outside. Maybe when she was younger guys would come to her window and the tap on it. That tap means she should come outside or to let them in. She compares herself to a tree. A tree stands alone, birds come and go not before doing their business. Probably that's how men treated her. It's hard for her to remember, because she might be older and summer is the only time she can remember. That may have been her time, when men were after her the most.
Great observations about Shakespeare's sonnet. What do you think the speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet means when he says "marriage of true minds" (1)? why not true hearts? It is interesting that you see the speaker as a man in the first part of Millay's sonnet and as a woman in the second half. Can you point to what is is about the first half of the poem that makes is sound as if a man were speaking?
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