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he did n't love her all tile tirn <·. I/ow cou ld one
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the term 'still' alo ng wit h 'gre at' lo prn ic;e her
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the woman.
♦ Lin es 11-22 : (Tonight I can wri
te the saddest line&..... We, of bal k then,
are no longer the same.)
Gis t: The spe ake r laments losing his lady-lov
e. He describes hj-., dc. ~~o lt'_.11'
e as it use d to be in pre--Y-..'Tlek 'J7
to get her back. He laments that the night is sam
his lady-love but they are not the same.
e lost her.- There is a grt0 :
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I hav
feels desolated wit hou t his l2d y-
sense of destit!ltion in these lines. The poet
love. To hear the immense night, still more imm
ense without her. - Her e imm E:115€:
void feeling in her sou l. And the
hints to vastness of the nig ht tha t deepens the
It is really poe tical in the real
verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.-
ps. His lam ent ing soul is likened
sense. The poe t likens his verses wit h dew dro
h pas ture . Wh at doe s it ma tter tha t my love could not keep her. -It seems as
wit
lost love. The night is starry and
if the spe ake r tries to console himself abo ut his
lover's hea rt gra dua lly gets
she is not wit h me. I This is all- The lamenting
s the rom ant ic atm osp her e of the
stiffened wit h a rep uls ive atti tud e tow ard
e. He see ms to accept the tru th of
nig ht tha t rem ind s him of his former lady-lov
ng her . In the dis tan ce som eon e is sing ing . In the distance. -Th e son g
losi
poe t from the distance. N.B. The
symbolically rep res ent s the pas t tha t calls the
rd 'dis tan ce' bea rs an imp ort ant
sho rt pau se wit h the rep eat atio n of the wo
the situ atio n bet we en the pas t and
significance in this poe m. The difference of
the pre sen t hau nts the poet. My soul is not
satisfied tha t it has los t her.-The
ng his lad y-lo ve in this line. He
poe t clearly rev eals his me tal codition at losi
still can not acc ept the trut h. My sight tries
to find her as though to bring 1ter
his love but this line shows his
closer. - Tho ugh the poe t's min d deviates from
k close to him . My heart looks for
love for her tha t still wa nts to brin g her bac
er aga in lam ent s her e. I1ie same
her, and she is not wit h me. -The dep era te lov
nig ht has the sam e affect on all
night ..... are no longer the same. - Tho ugh the
oth er objects of the nat ure (whitening the
same trees) exc ept the poe t and his
ing cou ple as the y use d to be in the
lady-love, as the y are no mo re the sam e lov
past.