of love in poems. The persona of the poet expressed as narrator in her poems would sometimes be female and sometimes be male. In "There's been a Death in the Opposite House" (p. 389), she assumes the masculine gender to write the lines:
There are different possible groupings of her love poetry to show different aspects of love, and the first such grouping focuses on the physical aspects of desire. This can be seen in "A Bee his burnished Carriage" as the poet depicts the bee taking his pleasure of the rose and then leaving her humbled by the rapture:
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