In both the poems the beloved is seen responding to her lover and his love.
In the first poem, the beloved has no issue with the lover forgetting her and the waves washing her name away. It is the lover who insists on eternalizing their love.

The nymph too is not moved by all the material gifts given to her by her lover and speaks the truth when she says that if youth was to stay for long she wouldn’t mind being her beloved. Her approach to love is very straightforward and like the beloved in Spenser’s sonnet she is very candid to her lover baring her mind to him.

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Consider the first line in “I Hear America Singing”: I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. In the context of the ent

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Considering the first line of the poem "I Hear America Singing": I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, and also taking in consideration the entire poem's context, it can be understood that the speaker's view of the American identity is one of an identity composed by many voices singing many different songs. That, of course, as a metaphor for different people living different realities that contribute to forming a nation's identity. The speaker lists, in the poem, various professions and activities being held by these people:

"The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,

The mason singing his as he makes ready for work (...)

The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat (...)"

And so he continues. "Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else", he says, conveying that this identity would be composed by many different realities, points of view, and stories, because every single one of these people can only "sing" or express from their points of view. Thus, the American nation's identity is a mixture of various realities, being each one of them important to be heard. Together, they create a whole based on variety.

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