Poetry 1

The poem is about a man's attempts to hold on to the woman he loves. She does not want to be with him, because she is sad. The speaker cannot express how he feels for her, and ends up shutting out the world.
The speaker is a man who is trying to express his feelings about his love. He is speaking to his lover, who does really understand what he is trying to say.
The poem was written to show the author's opinion on love. The author thinks that love is confusing, and never really works out for either side.
The author uses imagery to show this. First he starts with passion, which is usually present in most serious relationships. But then the woman starts getting tired of it and sad, while the man tries to keep her with him, usually without success. Then the man feels lonely, and starts to become isolated. But he still loves her, and continues to try and express how he feels. The images used explaining his feelings for her are incoherent and abstract, with some contradicting ideas, such as "Something with the wings of a bird, something of anguish and oblivion".(I don't know how to cite this.) Using wings, which could be meant as an angel, and oblivion, or hell, are total opposites, which shows how the speaker both loves and hates love or her. The increasingly confusing images of love show that after a relationship, the man becomes unsure of himself, and if he even loved the girl at all. And in the end he becomes hardened to love, "my heart closes like a nocturnal flower". The experience was not good for the man, and ended up ruining him.