Love_Me_Not

Love Me Not Love Me Not William Shakespeare’s sonnet number 138 is very much alike to one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems. In Shakespeare’s sonnet the voice is a male one talking to a woman. This man is a desperate one who is looking for love, he feels that even though this woman lies to him and probably cheats on him he needs to be with her. In Millay’s poem the voice is a woman’s who says to her boyfriend, if you are fed up with me, leave me and do it graciously because I would never want you to be unhappy. The voice in this poem is a semi-sarcastic one. On one hand one might interpret this as the truth that she really cares about this guy and she, herself is also needing love but, she does not want to be with the wrong person. On the other hand someone might interpret her as being sarcastic in a sort of fake sad voice. The first idea about Millay’s poem compares with Shakespeare’s very nicely. Both voices are those of people who are desperately in search of love because they feel they need it. Each voice is telling the other person that they says, voice, one, going, sonnet, shakespeare’s, millay’s, now, shakespeare, saying, person, millay, might, man, lying, leave, know, because, woman, very, therefore, states, right, poems, poem, love, interprets, hand, feel, difference, completely, compares, about, voices, unlearned, unhappy