During the 1990s two poems emerged equally attempting to shine light on factors that each author incorporates with love. Joseph Brodsky, a writer from Russia, uses "Love Song" as a vessel to convey his adoration for his female subject. Slightly after "Love Song" was written, Nikki Giovanni, a poet born in Tennessee, embarked on a poem she titles "Love in Place." While the authors were products of entirely dissimilar backgrounds, the two pieces seem to parallel each other in various ways. As the optimistic tones are easy to distinguish, subject and gender focus are also key components in the linking of the poems. In taking a closer look at the approaches Brodsky and Giovanni adopt throughout their writing, readers are provided with several similarities.

Brodsky and Giovanni's poetry can be most simply linked by the authors' focus on love as a subject. In "Love Song," the word "love...