This poem explores the contradictions and inconstancies of love through contrasting images and sensations. The speaker experiences life as both soft yet hard, feeling chill and cold as well as burning and drowning, laughing and crying simultaneously. While happiness endures unchanged, it also wanes. Greatest delights give way to renewed pain, as the pleasures and pains of love are never stable or certain.
This poem explores the contradictions and inconstancies of love through contrasting images and sensations. The speaker experiences life as both soft yet hard, feeling chill and cold as well as burning and drowning, laughing and crying simultaneously. While happiness endures unchanged, it also wanes. Greatest delights give way to renewed pain, as the pleasures and pains of love are never stable or certain.
This poem explores the contradictions and inconstancies of love through contrasting images and sensations. The speaker experiences life as both soft yet hard, feeling chill and cold as well as burning and drowning, laughing and crying simultaneously. While happiness endures unchanged, it also wanes. Greatest delights give way to renewed pain, as the pleasures and pains of love are never stable or certain.