How do these love poems, “Bleecker Street, Summer” and “The Fist,” compare with other love poems you’ve read?

In “Bleecker Street, Summer,” Walcott discusses the loveliness of the summer, but deep down he feels empty inside and longs for the island he calls home. Although Walcott uses vivid imagery to describe how amazing Manhattan is, there is still a missing component to being truly fulfilled. In “The Fist,” Walcott explains how love is often painful, but he enjoys the pain. However, he feels that he may crossing into a dangerous territory where this pain may kill him. Both poems are similar to others in a sense that it talks more about the emptiness and pain that love often brings.