Piercy’s “Simple Song” And Donne’s “A Lecture Upon The Shadow”: Human Desire For Love

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of a relationship because they want it to work so badly. “When
we are leaving someone we say: how strange you are we cannot communicate
we can never agree how hard, hard and weary to be together.”

When you are in a relationship that is ending, the smallest thing
bothers you about your significant other. You could suddenly decide that
the way they sneeze drives you absolutely crazy. You can pick a fight
about any conversation that comes up even if it is only a comment about
the weather. It is so hard to be together that you each begin to wonder
why you are still in the relationship and if its worth it anymore if it is
going to continue to be so hard.

The most important message in the poem comes in the third stanza.
Piercy writes about “reaching out clumsy hands.” Love is clumsy almost
in its definition. There have been few if there have been any people in
love who did not struggle, who did not stumble and make a few mistakes
along the way. The key idea that she was ...

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