What does love have to do with it? Many people have tried to define love for ages. Love can be the most powerful word and also the most dangerous. But love is more easily experienced than defined. Many authors and poets have written stories and poems on this subject. Express how they can love something or someone so much, through their literature. Or an author simply tells a love story. Love is the driving force behind all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parents for their child, for their family, for their country. When you are in love you always want to be together, and when you are not you think about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete. With these two literary novels, you can see how love can take over someone's mind. You are so in love with someone or something that you become so fascinating to them. It's a little scary when you look at it. Love is so strong that it can become addictive because you can love someone so much that you can become numb to everything around you when you think about that special person or place in your life. I will elaborate on the comparison and contrast between a short story titled "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and a poem titled "Nightsong: City" by Dennis Brutus which the author and poet wrote about love with their characters that they used. The comparison between "The Things They Carried" and "Nightsong: City" is obviously that both writers write about love, but how they used imagery through their writing to show how much the characters love someone through stories. “The Things They Carried” and “Nightsong: City” have similarities through the author’s work. "The Things They Carried" is about a Vietnam War soldier named ...... middle of paper ...... until he loves this place and it really means a lot to him. And I like the way Brutus begins and ends the poem, which is like a bedtime story with a gentle tone. “Sleep well, my love, sleep well” (line 1, 9) In conclusion, love is unconditional affection without limits or conditions, completely loving someone or certain places which we learned about in “The Things They Carried” and “Nightsong: City”. Sometimes love can be powerful and dangerous, as we both notice in “The Things They Carried.” With Cross being so blind to his love for Martha, he doesn't even pay attention to his surroundings during the war. He doesn't notice anything around him because he's so focused on Martha. And you can love a place no matter what it looks like. This place is close to your heart. You can love a place like Brutus expresses his love for his homeland, South Africa, in the poem “Nightsong: City”.