Girl's Poem
Girl's Poem - meaning Summary
Boundless, Unmeasurable Longing
The poem presents a speaker's intense, unfulfilled love through a series of natural comparisons. She counts stars, branches, springs, birds, and rocks and says that even if they all were hers or transformed, they still would not match her need, song, embrace, or the depth of her pain. The accumulation of impossibly numerous images emphasizes the scale of desire and sorrow: love is vast yet insufficiently returned or resolved, leaving the speaker with an aching, incommensurable longing. It reads as both declaration and lament.
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