This poem metaphorically portrays the love of the speaker for her husband by

comparing her need for him to her need for the earth. Part I of Angela Manalang
Gloria's “To the Man I Married” follows the traditional form of an English (also
called, Elizabethan or Shakespearean) sonnet.

(The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer's attitude toward
the subject or audience. The tone in a poem of praise is approval. In a satire, you
feel irony. In an antiwar poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation.)
What are examples of tone?
(Some other examples of literary tone are: airy, comic, condescending, facetious,
funny, heavy, intimate, ironic, light, playful, sad, serious, sinister, solemn, somber,
and threatening.
Tone can be formal, informal, playful, angry, serious or humorous, and the tone of
a poem can even change throughout the poem. In describing a poem's tone, you
may use any kind of adjective you wish as long as it accurately conveys your
interpretation of the writer's attitude toward the subject or the audience.)

(The subject of a poem is the idea or thing that the poem concerns or represents.
Looking for the poem's subject is natural. Almost all poetry has messages to
deliver — lots of them, profound and diverse as stars. But these messages are
sometimes hidden, and you have to read attentively to make them out.
The subject matter of something such as a book, lecture, movie, or painting is the
thing that is being written about, discussed, or shown.)