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Love
The more loving one
When the stars go out, is Auden's speaker still the more loving one?
In Auden's poem the speaker would rather love the stars than be loved more than he loves, and imagines going on when they are gone. The plain question underneath: if love can't be equal, would you rather be the one who loves more?
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