How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is - meaning Summary
Joy Edged with Peril
The speaker describes an intoxicating encounter with a beloved that feels both rapturous and hazardous. Pleasure and danger intertwine: the beloved’s gaze, smile, and speech are enchanting, producing heavenly bliss but also obsessive longing. The experience transforms the speaker’s life into something simultaneously divine and cursed, suggesting love’s capacity to uplift and to unsettle identity and previous contentment.
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