Shakespeare and Millay

Both the poem by Shakespeare and the poem by Millay, deal with love and time affecting it. Shakespeares however, seems to be talking about how elements such as time, do not affect or get in the way of true love. He further establishes his position on love by saying, "If this be error, and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd." In other words, he is comparing undeniable truths such as him being a writer and man having been in love, with something he additionally feels to be an undeniable truth, to establish it as such. Millay's poem on the other hand, carries an entire sense of loss. For instance, throughout the poem she uses terms such as "where and why", "I have forgotten", "lonely", etc. In her poem she compares the seasons change to love and love lost. To illustrate, she speaks of a winter's "lonely tree" in contrast to the summer "that sang in me". So it is evident that these two poems speak of love however, Shakespeare's is more optimistic while Millay's describes a forlornness.