Discovery, By Michael Harper

The poem "Discovery" is a poem about love. This is a romantic kind of love that is expressed between two individuals a male (the narrator ) and a female (the narrator 's partner in the poem. The setting is night time on bed (they laid together in the dark the two are close to each other (the narrator could hear her breath as presented by lines one and two. It is possible for lovers to sleep together and engage in an act like sex . I think Harper has thought of convincing the readers of the reality of the narrator 's emotion by attending to the facts that are happening while the narrator is sleeping. Just like love , it may or may not be seen , only felt . When love is true, the person does not wish for it to be recognized nor expect returns from act of pretense. The eyes have always been the window of our inner passion and touch and kiss signify intimacy. The author rightly used the line she was staring at me with her eyes, to demonstrate the act of looking over a loved on in the coldness of the night and the line a little shaken as she stroked my skin and kissed my brow, to literally project sweetness although the challenging night's condition was not directly written in the poem, it is implied especially when line number eight says, her thigh warming mine. The line, her breasts still sturdy could be a depitcion of an aged woman who despite the fading strength in the context of age and experience has shown liveliness or could also mean period of encouragement which is demostrated as a lead up to a more intimate encounter by a woman.