“Bleecker Street, Summer” gives off a vibe of hope and excited anticipation of what love feels like. Walcott sets the scene of summer on Bleecker Street and what he would do if his loved one was here. His other work, “The Fist” talks about how love can make you feel as if it’s unreasonable and overly emotional, and the heart-aching feeling you get from it is never-ending. This theme is pretty re-occurrent throughout most love poems I have read in the past. Let’s take “The Lady with the Dog” by Chekhov as an example: the story incorporates longing and anticipation when Anna Sergeyevna and Dmitri Gurov parted ways in Yalta. The longing they have felt with each other made their love seem so unreasonable under their circumstances as they both are married with their own spouses. The setting in Yalta is comparable to that of “Bleecker Street, Summer” set by Walcott because of the euphoric feeling it gives off to readers.
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I agree with your description of love that describe in the poem. Also nicely compared two poems with another poem. At the end you also describe the setting of the poem.