The Poet's Proposal

There's something contrived, I find,
In the metaphor of setting suns;
Won't you sit by the levee,
And watch the symbolic event?

I thought it may be romantic,
You see, to propose marriage,
At the twilight of our anniversary,
As life is full of such irony.

"That's not irony at all," you say?
"Really, you're a hack," you think?
Harsh of you to judge that way,
I must say, your taste just stinks.

Clichéd as it might seem, philistine,
The sunset holds layers of meanings, literary,
Allegory, Shakespearean, even Modernists use it!
Don't you know your philosophy?

Death, rebirth, change, transformation,
Metamorphesis, transfiguration, rejuvenation,
Is any of this ringing bells?

Damn, I'm not marrying such an uneducated woman.