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Poem found here:  "The Blessing" by John Updike The poem is a response to "A Blessing" by James Wright , So the question being is how much can this poem compare to the other, or does this poem stand on its own. The initial image of "The room darkened, darkened until / our nakedness became a form of gray;" in more of a suffocating image while the James Wright poem seems to expand outward, but these lines have the same vulnerabilities that Wright's poem exposes when it goes into internal projection of the horses. But here, here we have generalities:      the rain came bursting,      and we were sheltered, blessed,      upheld in a world of elements      that held us justified. Note how the vulnerabilities are easily shored up with being "sheltered" versus the "A Blessing" again going outward and being further vulnerable.  However this poem is more straight forward about "love":      In all the love I had ...