Old-fashioned Requited Love
Old-fashioned Requited Love - meaning Summary
Searching for an Answer
The speaker embarks on a quirky, earnest quest to find a person or explanation, rifling encyclopedias and then turning to ordinary street vendors. The poem frames yearning as a search that intellect cannot satisfy, so the speaker looks to everyday figures—the banana seller, the iceman—for human, concrete knowledge. Its tone mixes wistful puzzlement with light humor, suggesting that love or understanding is elusive and rooted in common life.
Read Complete AnalysesI HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias And slid my fingers among topics and titles Looking for you. And the answer comes slow. There seems to be no answer. I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it. Or-the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight-maybe he will know.
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