A Story Behind The Poem

What's the story behind this poem? Why would you choose it?

Alm

My heart is what it was before,
A house where people come and go;
But it is winter with your love,
The sashes are beset with snow.

I light the lamp and lay the cloth,
I blow the coals to blaze again;
But it is winter with your love,
The frost is thick upon the pane..

I know a winter when it comes:
The leaves are listless on the boughs;
I watched your love a little while,
And brought my plants into the house.

I water them and turn them south,
I snap the dead brown from the stem;
But it is winter with your love,
I only tend and water them.

There was a time I stood and watched
The small, ill-natured sparrows' fray;
I loved the beggar that I fed,
I cared for what he had to say,

I stood and watched him out of sight:
Today I reach around the door
And set a bowl upon the step;
My heart is what it was before,

But it is winter with your love;
I scatter crumbs upon the sill,
And close the window, —and the birds
May take or leave them, as they will.

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I chose this poem for a large variety of reasons. But the most important of those reasons involved love. From the perspective of marriage, this chosen poem evokes quite a few stunning emotions, not all of which are good (though not all of which are bad either). It does an excellent job of highlighting the love-hate dynamic many feel towards relationships in the first stanza, lines 1-4. Moving on, the author uses intimate imagery many readers can empathize with, “I light the lamp and lay the cloth, / I blow the coals to blaze again; / But it is winter with your love, / The frost is thick upon the pane...” (lines 5-8)....