I Am Offering this Poem Themes

Ah love—don't we all love love? We love to be loved, and we love to love one another. Okay, okay, we'll stop. We're only repeating the word "love" here because it's repeated so much in "I Am Offe...

This is a poem that comments on itself as poetry. It's meta-poetry, in other words (poetry that talks about poetry). The speaker delves into the meaning of his own poem and the meaning of all poetr...

The speaker of "I Am Offering this Poem" not only offers his beloved a poem, he offers her freedom. The poem, in other words, represents freedom. And that's because the poem protects the beloved, i...

What is home? Is it a physical place? Is it other people? Is it love? Is it poetry? In this poem, home is all of these things. The speaker uses imagery associated with the home in order to suggest...