In the poem Love in My Lifetime Allie expresses his feeling about the life he has been given. We see Allie convey his emotions of how life has cheated him while in contrast, Allie accepts his determined death and is put at peace by the fact that he is loved dearly by his whole family, especially his brother Holden. The line “Planted on earth to grow in heaven” is an expression referring to Allie’s belief that he has been born just long enough to get a taste for life just for it to be taken away. This feeling is amplified by the whole second stanza. Comparatively at the end of each stanza Allie is reminded of the fact that even his life will soon be over the love he has given and received will last much longer. Being on the baseball field becomes