Comparing You Fit Into Me And French Toast

Poetry is fascinating,most poems are interpreted in different ways and are debated on its meaning for years after its written. You can read a poem and you think you understand its meaning while the person next to you thinks it means something completely different. While you discuss the poem you realize that nobody is wrong because the poem can have multiple meanings. There are a variety of poems that talk about love and give examples, but in these poems “You Fit Into Me” by Margaret Atwood and “French Toast” by Anya Silver they show a different meaning to love. They use several metaphors to describe their relationships between their emotions. They explain how love can never fade away because it's always there. The poem by Atwood is extremely

The poem begins by giving directions on how to create french toast, for example “Thick slices sunk in milk…. dipped in foaming cream and frothy egg, richness drenching every yeasted crevice and bubble”. One key part of the poem is when it says “that's how sodden with luck I felt when we fell in love”. This portrays the time when they fell in love. It gives a description about being drenched at every crevice and bubble during their relationship. At this point they were in deep love because it mentions being completely covered and full. This poem describes their love through food, this just takes it to a whole new level. As she turned 40 she talks about that “lost bread” which means it's stale bread. You can't do anything with it because it’s to hard to put anything on it, the best thing to do is to make french toast. Why, because it can soak up all the milk which turns crusty old bread into something new. Another important part of the poem is where it says “I turn towards you under goose down after ten years of marriage, craving, that sweet white immersion”. This shows that there love is still deep after all those years, it just needs to be refreshed once in awhile. The stale bread is representing their relationship. If you don’t work on your relationship it can go bad. If you put in a good effort this can make it feel brand new. The poem mentions

They are both similar, due to the fact, that they both talk about the love that have deep relations. Both poems talk about love but neither one of them comes out and says it. In addition, they talk about items that have no love connection to them. One is a fish hook and an eye and the other is french toast. Another similarity is that they were created around the same time period “French Toast” was made in 1968 and “You Fit Into Me” was in 1971. These years were more peaceful because people tried to spread love to each other. There are many differences in the poems too. For example, “French Toast” was about refreshing their love to each other and making it better while Atwood could be about a heartbreak. Every time she thinks about the hurt, bad memories would come to mind. Something else is the metaphors they use, Silver uses food to describe their love together. It shares a recipe on how to make french toast by describing ingredients made from food to show how deeply in love they were. Atwood, used a pain sensation, a hook in an eye to show that there was pain and bad memories. Also, their attitudes toward relationships were different because Silver wants to improve on what she has and to reconnect while Atwood doesn't. She describes how difficult it would be without each other, and how the pain can equals bad