Gwendolyn+Brooks*

//To Be In Love *//
- Brooks introduces the poem by illustrating how wonderful it is to be in love and how being in love can make one grow and develop as a person. - The speaker enjoys the idea that when two people are in love they seem to have this connection and way of communicating even when they are not physically together. - Also discusses the loss that eventually comes with loving someone, and the amount of pain that one has to go through when losing someone. - The last part of the poem relates to what happens after loving someone and then losing them.