Question

it's the summary of the whole "if thou must love me chapter"
It's for those who are appearing for icse 10th exams tommorow

She compares herself with a creature because she wants to express that she is a human being with lots of feelings and emotions. Here ‘creature’ is used as opposed to nonliving things. If she were lifeless, she would have remained unchanged with time. But for being a ‘creature’ her thoughts or feelings might change later. So it won’t be wise enough to love her for such transitory reasons.

In another interpretation, the lover does sympathize with the poet and wipe her eyes in times of sorrow. All these are similar to treat her like a creature. But the poet doesn’t wish to be treated that way, as she may find a strong position and may not need to weep in future. She wants to be treated with genuine love and care, not with

She compares herself with a creature because she is miserable with sorrow and weeps

By comparing herself to the creature she wants to say that she is a thinking womanwho deserves the same love and respectas any other human

The poet alludes herself to a *creature* like a whimpering dog or a baby bird that can easily invoke pity in someone’s heart.  She says so that she is not a creature  and if bores his company she’ll forget her pain and might not cry and might not be able to produce the pity and gain sympathy.  She’ll not be able to shed any tear to be wiped off and if he gets bored of her.


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