Relationships in Elizabeth Barrett Brownings poem If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught :: If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Naught

Relationships in Elizabeth Barrett Brownings poem If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For NaughtThe relationships between men and women have always been a widely talked about subject. Each gender wonders what it would be like to be the other and bear things the way that the other would. Men and women most likely wont ever understand each other and sometimes wont be able to love the person that loves them. Elizabeth Barrett Brownings poem If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught explains how women hurt men. Another poet, Maya Angelou, writes about how men hurt women. However, that doesnt mean that other couples cant get along. Gwendolyn support wrote a poem, called The Bean Eaters, about how men and women can live with each other for very long periods of time. The relations between men and women are often times very complex, but they can also be simple.Some women discover that finding the right man is rather difficult. In Brownings poem, she writes of a newfangled women who is talki ng about a man that loves her. She finds that she doesnt really love him and when trying to explain it to him says this, If thou must love me, let it be for naught/ pretermit for loves sake only (260, lines 1-2). The woman in the poem knows that this man loves her and she believes that he loves her only for her smile- her look- her way of speaking gently (260, lines3-4) and that isnt good enough for her. The women tells the man auf wiedersehen and she gives her final words, Thou mayst love on, through loves eternity (260, line 14). The woman tells him he volition find some one new, some one who will love him back.Even though physical pain can be hurtful, psychological pain is sometimes worse. In the poem To a Husband by Maya Angelou, a woman is being verbally abused by her husband. His voice at times a fist (254, line1), his words hurt her as would a punch in the stomach or a slap to the face. She does not understand why he is doing this to her. Men have their ways of talking to women to honor them submissive and under control. Men talk down to their wives and make them think that they are dumb and have no value except to tend to the children and the house.