This is a very sad poem of a man who just lost the love of his life. In the first main lines of a poem we get the theme of the distance. It’s clear that something has happened today, so tonight he can write the saddest lines, and that yesterday things were different. Then the author continues by showing the love that he Has for the woman, and explaining how heartless she was, that she only loved him sometimes. He then goes on to describe the woman’s ‘great still eyes’ that it was impossible not to fall in love with them. Then we get the theme of loneliness and remembering, when he is alone in the dark staring outside, when nights before they used to be together at this time.
The disappointment that he has lost her and won’t get her back continues throughout the poem, but the author is trying to convince himself in a way that it was not meant to be, and he doesn’t love her anymore. He ends the poem with “Tough this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her” in trying to put an end to all this suffering that he is experiencing.
My favorite line of the poem is: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long”. I think it’s just so beautiful and so true!
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