After reading through all of the poems in the list we had to choose from, the two poems I chose were "Variation on the Word Sleep" and "A Monorhyme for the Shower".  Both of the poems are about a love life or someone wanting the love life they had, as were most of the poems.  The reason for me picking these two poems out of all the other ones is because they are both about people either talking about or watching their spouses or someone they want to be with.  Although, there are a few differences between the two poems they are both relatively about the same thing.

In "Variation on the Word Sleep" you get the since that the author is talking about wanting to be with someone, and wanting to be able to watch them sleep.  Which may sound strange, but it is like they are reminiscing on the first time they got to spend with this unknown person.  I'm assuming that the character is a female, just because of the fact that the author is a female, but it could be a male.  That is an unanswered question throughout the poem.  In this poem, there is a since that the character either used to sleep with this person, and they past away, or just knows who the person is and wants to have them in their life again like the time they are thinking back on.

In "A Monorhyme for the Shower", the narrator of the poem is obviously a male, but just like in "Variation of the Word Sleep" the narrator is this time instead of wanting to watch someone sleep, he is watching his wife shower.  In this poem, the narrator is just admiring the beauty of his wife, and reminiscing on his youth when he was scared to approach her and ask her out because of how beautiful she was.  He also talks about "the continuous life we share", which lets the reader know they are married.

Between the two poems, I connected the since of both narrators admiring a person they loved, or once loved.  The difference between the two is that in "Variation on the Word Sleep" the narrator is admiring someone he or she loves, but the person they are admiring is not there.  In "A Monorhyme for the Shower" the narrator is admiring someone they love that is still alive, or there physically with him.  He is also explaining that they are married and he still loves her like he did the day he first met her, unlike in "Variation of the Word Sleep" where the narrator wants to go back and be with this person like it was the first day.  In the end, they are both reminiscing on the love they share or shared with one person.  The only major difference is that in the first poem, the narrator is not physically with the person they're thinking about, and in the second poem the narrator is with the person he is talking about.