In Ferlinghetti's 'In Golden Gate Park That Day' and Morgan's 'Strawberries' both poets highlight how simple acts and moments hold a special significance for the lovers and ultimately define the quality of their lover. Ferlinghetti appears to comment on the idea that communication and intimacy have been lost between the lovers which ultimately creates unhappiness for the woman as the quality of her love has depreciated. On the other hand, Morgan appears to highlight an ideal moment of togetherness as the speaker looks back on a fond memory in which the quality of the love was almost at a apex of perceived perfection. However, the reader may understand that this love seems to have been lost at some point after this memory. In Ferlinghetti's 'In Golden Gate Park That Day' he uses a third person narrative throughout his poem to create a perspective of almost looking in on the relationship. The speaker watches a "man and wife were coming along through the enormous meadow" which may depict a sense of togetherness between the couple as they are ultimately taking this journey together. This is further emphasised through the repetition of the "meadow of the world" and "enormous meadow" which could suggest that their relationship has become their world and that the couple are with each other but are ultimately alone in this world. The adjective "enormous" reinforces the alienation of the couple as seemingly the meadow they are in is so far away from anything else. Some readers may interpret this as a significant moment between the two lovers as perhaps they are so in love that both husband and wife only care about each other. Alternatively in Morgan's 'Strawberries' his use of intense natural and vivid imagery seen in "sultry" and "strawberries glistening in the hot sunlight" perhaps all help to emphasise how the speaker is looking back on this memory with fondness as they have a sense of longing to go back to this moment of intensity in their relationship. Morgan himself was a gay poet and at the time of writing his poem, same-sex marriage was probably illegal, so perhaps this poem is an expression of Morgan's personal longing to have a simple act with a lover in which he can define his own relationship. Ferlinghetti goes on to present the alienation between the husband and wife as they both sit down "without looking at each other". Ferlinghetti repeats this phrase three times perhaps to reinforce the loss of communication and intimacy between the two lovers as they are together but rarely interact. The sudden change from a strange sense of togetherness expressed only a few lines earlier in the poem could suggest that this level of uninterest and disassociation is unusual. Ferlinghetti's use of free verse allows the speaker to seemingly display a level of worry and compassion for the wife in the relationship as she lays there "without any particular expression except a certain awful look of terrible depression" this helps Ferlinghetti to embody the idea that a simple act such as the husband ignoring his wife defines their relationship into that of a negative atmosphere. The phrase "terrible depression" truly reveals the wife's pained state of mind as she herself is unable to say anything as she gazes upon him. The lack of any "particular expression" may suggest a level of confusion as the wife is unsure on why her husband has lost all intimacy. Morgan further presents the simple act as a memory of when the speaker and her partner were children as they were "abandoned like a child from your eager mouth" perhaps highlighting a sense of intimacy that the speaker looks back upon as a supposed 'golden moment' in a period of unhappiness. The adjective "eager" helps to create a sense of joyful passion, something that the speaker pleads for again through "lean back again let me love you". The reader may interpret this as a tone of subtle desperation as though nothing she has experienced after this will ever compare. Morgan also adopts free verse, perhaps using this technique as a method of expression against the constraints of society and the oppression of love. Overall, both poems presents the couples in similar ways with the memories being outside the season of summer, however both couples seem to be at different stages. Ferlinghetti presents the lovers as together but alienated as the lack of communication and intimacy has depreciated the quality of love for the wife as she lays their pained. Morgan chooses to show his couple after they are no longer together and the speaker looks back on a fond memory of their intimacy and passion and how one night defined their relationship and how the speaker has a longing to return to that moment.