The two poems "Love, We Must Part Now: Do Not Let It Be" and "I Hear An Army Charging Upon The Land" suggest a different attitude and feeling toward the ending of relationships.

Philip Larkin's poem "Love, we must part now: do not let it be" is a poem about a couple who cant stand each other and want to get separate. They regret the fact that they had ever met. "But it is better that our lives unloose" therefore they want to forget they were ever in a relationship and move on. "And waving part, and waving drop from sight" basically to not see each other ever again.

Whereas, in James Joyce's poem "I Hear An Army Charging Upon The Land" it is a far distance relationship, where the man is out somewhere in the army and her love, at home, waiting upon his arrival. "They cleave...