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The More Loving One by W.H. Auden

Title:
The More Loving One- That there's always someone that has more feelings for a person than that person feels about them.

Paraphrase:
In the first stanza, Auden starts by stating that people will have the choice to be a man or a beast, and that they will have that choice no matter what the people and things around them say or do. The second stanza states that the narrator would prefer to be the more loving one if there cannot be equal feelings. The third stanza pretty much says that it would be the other person's loss if they do not see what feelings and love the narrator has to offer. Finally, in the last stanza, Auden says that everything dies or disappears, and that although it is inevitable, it will always be hard to deal with.

Connotation:
Stars- any heavenly body, except the moon, but in the peom's case I believe it symbolizes a person.

Attitude:
The attitude of this poem is solemn and gentle. It seems so sympathetic, fragile almost but at the same time it is stating a feeling or thought that's so strong.

Shift:
After the third stanza, there seems to be a shift where the narrator goes from being positive, and happy to sorrow of losing the people he cares around them. In the first three stanzas Auden writes about wanting to be the better person, wanting to be the one loving rather than being loved but then in the last stanza the narrator becomes sad, stating that although times pass, it'll always be hard to lose someone in your life.

Title revisit:
The title seems more meaningful, meaning that the narrator would want to be the better person, the one to give love and make someone happy, avoid the chances of becoming some beast who doesn't love back.

Theme:
The theme of this peom is that often times the amount of feelings given and received are not equal but it is always better to be the one who loves more because you will always make someone happy which should make you happy as well.