Love and Happiness

In our English class we are reading the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder.  We are on act 2 of the book which covers the marriage between George and Emily.  After the class read the act we had to make our own opinions on love marriage and also read poems of the same topic.  The poems that we read about love and marriage were true love by Wislawa Szymborska and also To my dear and loving husband by Anne Bradstreet.  These two poems had completely different opinions on love and marriage then the other.  In true love it says "Lookat the happy couple. Couldn't they at least try to hide it, fake a little depression for their friends sake?  Listen to them laughing- its an insult."  In this poem the author despises people that are in love or just any couple in general that is happy.  I feel that this is completely wrong because being in love is a great thing and seeing other people happy should make you happy, not angry.  She also says that "True love. Is it really necessary?  Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, like a scandal in life's highest circles." This is also false in my opinion because like the other one love is an important thing and should be treasured by everyone not hated.  I don't know why Wislawa Szymborska has so much hatred in her heart but it might be because she is jealous or she recently broke up with her boyfriend.  The other poem that we read was To my dear and loving husband which was a very short poem but filled with her opinion on love.  The poem starts out with her saying that "if ever two were one, then surely we.  If ever man were loved by wife then thee; if ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me ye woman if you can."  In this opening she is saying that if two people were a couple and they both loved each other then they won't separate for other people.  I agree with To my dear and loving husband more because they agree with my view on love and marriage.  I think that love is a "sacred" thing and should be treasured by both the husband and the wife which Anne Bradstreet made her poem about.  I also think that love should be infinite and everlasting even after death which was also stated in her poem.  These are some of the viewpoints of love and marriage of 2 poems and myself and you can see the differences with them.