"Please Come Late" and the "Hate Poem" are two poems I found similar in 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. The two poems are alike due to the fact they both are based upon love.
“Please Come Late” by Hugo Williams is a poem about a girl who wants the guy to come late to whatever the place she is talking about. The girl (narrator) states at the beginning "Please come late, so that I have almost given you up..." (line 1-2). By the narrator begging for him to come late so that she has almost given him up, explains that she still wants him to come because she still have feelings for him. She prays that he is lost so she will never see him again. She wants him to come extremely late for her not to even notice he isn't there. Then she says "Make me suffer" (line 10). In this poem you see her thoughts as to wanting to suffer and wanting to miss him, but then she expresses how she has decided she doesn't want to see him. She go on by saying "I don’t really like you. I'd rather be on my own. I know it is all over between us, but I go on sitting here..." (22-25). The girl (narrator) obviously has feelings for him but she doesn't want him to come near her until she has falling madly in love with him.
"Hate Poem" by Julie Sheehan is a "love-hate" poem. The narrator which is a girl, uses the term "Hate" multiple times throughout the poem. The term "Hate" in the poem really means love. Whoever the girl (narrator) is talking about she is obviously in love with him. When she says "Everything about me hates everything about you" (line 2). She is clearly trying to say she loves everything about him. It seems to me like she is in denial that she really loves him but is fearful of admitting it. "The flick of my wrist hates you. The way I hold my pencil hates you" (3-4). And she continues to go on. The way she expresses how she hates him makes me realize that she is constantly thinking about him. Instead of her expressing her true feelings for him, she avoids doing so by saying she "Hates" him in a harsh manner. "My lungs, duplicitous, twins, expand with the utter validity of my hate, which can never have enough of you..." (line 23). That line clearly proves how madly in love she is with him.
In both of the love poems they demonstrate love in a similar way by hiding their feelings or in other words not expressing their true feelings. Both of the narrators are madly in love with a guy. They both just have their own way of expressing it. In "Please Come Late" she wants him to make her miss him and suffer so that she can fall in love with him. Whereas in the "Hate Poem" she harshly uses the word "Hate" when deep down inside she loves him but just in denial. Both of the poems illustrate love in a very unique way but yet by reading between the lines you know exactly how they really feel towards their significant other.
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