True Love

Regardless of my initial thoughts on the poem "True Love", I now firmly believe that the narrator was telling a story of  misfortune. This is first made apparent through the beginning of the poem, where the narrator states that the relationship started out simply as “friends with benefits,” but quickly – and to the narrator’s seeming misfortune – grew into something more as the two found themselves on the road to parenthood and to further point out her tale of woe and misfortune what seemed to be either a shotgun-marriage or a baby-mama/daddy relationship. “Bound to each other like mountaineers coming down from a mountain” paints such a vivid picture for the reader to envision as they begin to understand the strength of the connection now tied between the narrator and her lover which is then further reinforced with the following line, “bound with the tie of the delivery-room”. As the poem progresses, the narrator continues to illustrate the fact that she is now, due to their recent childbirth, more than ever bound to one another “with huge invisible threads”; strings which creates an invisible band between herself and her significant other. Her clear and utter contempt for this union is evident through her sarcastic statement, “surely this is the most blessed time of my life.” Through such eloquent analogies which work to give the reader a much more firm grasp of the narrator’s intended meanings, she tells not only a vivid story, but also helps the reader to get a feel for what the narrator was feeling as she recited this poem.