The poem “Dare” by Nate Klug indicates a love that is not quite returned or finished but stands on the edge of a cliff. It is the action of emphasizing and expanding a moment right before an anticipated rejection. A love that doesn’t seem to be healthy is what seems to be displayed. The writer seems to be deprived of his lover but is to cowardly to approach and is paralyzed “between regret and” the “parking lot” (Klug 3). This approach can be further proven with the first line of the opening stanza where it says “Not, this time”(Klug 1). He simply can’t dare himself to approach his love. Yet the second line in the first stanza express a less coward narrator who plans to confront his lover. The author seems to disregard his audience in just the second line of the first…show more content… The second stanza is beautiful to the naked eye it is just a bunch of images that the narrator is seeing but in fact it has so much more meaning. He uses these images almost as if they are a defense mechanism to justify his love. Using the imagery in the second stanza to pivot away from the ultimate subject, which is love. The goshawk and it’s nest seem to be a metaphor for love. The twigs represent that love is fragile and the tape represents caution that is taken while in love. Then again the poem takes another leap towards a different distraction with those who are holding up their phones. There is a bitter agony in the unrequited love from the narrator’s love as he admits that “It is relentless, the suddenness of every other song, creature, neighbor”(Klug 12-14). The narrator seems to have made it an obsession from his agony. The relentlessness about the suddenness of these external things in the narrator’s mind, “as though this life would prove you only by turning into itself”(Klug 15-17). Putts a lot of heavy weight upon the one who the narrator loves. The author uses the word this before life as if to deliberately identify something but not to claim
