From Prelude

By: Richard Aldington

How could I love you more?

I try to think of one lovely gift

No lover yet in all the world has found;

I think: If the cold somber gods

Were hot as love as I am

Could they not endow you with a star

And fix bright youth forever in your limbs?

Could they not give you all things that I lack?

1. What is the poem all about?

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2. What is the speaker's tone? (Support your answer with adequate lines from the poem)

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3. What is the purpose of the author in writing the poem?

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