Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998 / West Yorkshire / England)

nice one I really like it.....

The graphic interplay of sex, love, comedy and violence is an English tradition that runs from Shakespeare to Morrissey. Hughes mines both the light and dark of love, finding menace in the most simple acts ('His kisses sucked out her whole past') and unearths humour amidst the carnage ('lopped melon') . For me, the poem's greatest strength is the sense of movement you feel as you read. Passage through the poem mirrors the passage through a relationship: from the passionate kisses of youth, the lovers are chewed up and spat out into a shared double bed, wearing each others' faces, and probably matching pajamas. To misquote John Lennon, love is something that happens when you're busy making other plans'. Or as Doctorow writes elsewhere, 'the sense is of running downhill too fast'.

I love this poem. If you enjoyed it, then you might also like my poems 'When I Wake Up Every Morning' and 'So Many Times'.

tenderly violent and breathtaking - like love and life

That full stop shouldn't be there indeed. But I think it somehow underlines the words about their love, markes them out. Without the first line the whole verse becomes the senseless SM-abracadabra. So it's quite reasonable to make them noticeable in this way. Even if this is a mistake of formatting, it is an apropriate mistake indeed.

I love this poem. However, the formatting of this submitted poem is wrong. There should not be a full stop at the end of the first line.

I couldn't agree more.

Any cruelty here consists of commenting on the poet rather than the poem, and nobody commits another person's suicide.

More than that, I have been unable to get this poem out of my mind, the agony and the wonder of pure chemistry. Who has not had a relationship like this or had one that evolved into this? On one hand the agony is immense but the ecstacy more so, such that you will accept any amount of toxicity, ignoring the good sense of self, friends and family for years or even unto death.

Ted hughes is a tool who closed the oven door on a greater poet's head.

Lovesong is an original poem in my view, for the reasons can be numerous. It uses the third person in an imaginative way. It begins well and with distinction, giving us a list of lovely statements, giving us an exercise of love, just like a song of love.
What I like about ‘Lovesong’ is that the language is spectacular in its common usage of terminology, the very words employed to describe a good love affair. It is clever to show the two lovers in the right permutation and also combination! The stanza breaks still are perfect, and they are sound.
It is useful of him to use alliteration in such a marvellous manner. The repetition is intelligent, and keeps coolness and structure.
The metaphor has much demonstration in this poem. In my opinion it is special to end a poem with such words as ‘In the morning they wore each other’s face’, because it shows how faithful they have been in their whole life. Thus a song has been a song - a lovesong.