Explication

The "Love Poem Earth" by Shu Ting gives a seemingly simple statement that the narrator loves the earth a story. The phrase "I love earth" starts the first stanza and the next comparing the first to the father and the other to the mother. This first part is about the father who does not say a lot but does things. Earth is personified as a living thing that breaths and has blood flowing through it. Similar to the father it provides warmth other things necessary for life. It has to handle the weight of monuments or responsibilities. While the museum could be history that the father would keep with a family name and contribution that would help the family. (Ting)

Yet the earth has a gentle side that is comparable to a mother. It has been abandoned by man time and time again with the industrial revolution and all the pollution. But, it is still there and does the best it can just like a mother who supports her family. Since there is a earth it is possible for sound, colors, and even bad things to be experience by people. Yet the earth is called "dirt" or is not appreciated by many people who live on it. Similar to how a mother may not get appreciated by her children till she is gone. Interestingly in english earth is another word for dirt, though this is a translated interpretation. Both mother and earth may not be understood sometimes and so they are "lonely" even when people are around. (Ting)

The Last stanza begins saying that first the father and then the mother "grants me" something. A father to the narrator is the one who has the big vision for the future and the mother is the person who provides the path to reach it. A "gramtree" is a tree of her home and the "day and night" will mean that love is being constantly sent to the earth from the place where it belongs. (Ting)