These two poems exemplify two different kinds of hope: hope put in love and hope put elsewhere. In “Measure”, the speaker longs only to put into words the love that he or she feels for his or her significant other. The speaker tries, but does not succeed giving the idea that love is so much more greater than we can all imagine. Millay takes a completely different direction in her poem “Love is not all” and clearly states that despite popular belief, romantic love can not satisfy all your needs. The speaker of the poem compares love to food and drink (necessities) and then the luxuries of everyday life. She then goes on to say that love is no magical power and can’t fix everything in your life.
I would say that my views on romantic love fall in between these two points of view. Because although I am a hopeless romantic, I do believe that romanticizing someone in such a way might lead to being let down in the end. That’s really pessimistic but that’s the truth.
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