Catullus 92

In this poem love is important to Catullus. He shows that love is important to him because he uses the word "dispeream" which translates as "I may die". It is not just the word which shows the importance of love to him, but what he compares it to. He compares his death to Lesbia not loving him and comparing it to him not loving Lesbia truly. Going along with the importance of love, comes his passion for having a relationship with Lesbia. Throughout this poem, it seems as if Catullus puts you, as a reader, in a setting of a married couple arguing with each other. The poem creates this feeling because a married couple doesn't always say the nicest things to one another which attracts you into this scenario. Catullus says that Lesbia all talks bad about him, but at the same time he does the same thing to her all the time. He pictures this as a sign of a future relationship with her. He sees this because of how a couple acts by arguing with one another. He expresses this passion for a relationship with Lesbia by putting his own life in balance of the relationship. Two times in the poem, he says he is going to kill himself if this relationship doesn't work. There is a reason why he chooses to say this twice. He says it twice because it takes two loving people who would die for each other to make a relationship work. This actually ties the whole poem together. It expresses his importance of love and his passion for being in a relationship with Lesbia, but at the same time it describes how a true relationship acts and what makes one work.