Because I Love You
Because I Love You - meaning Summary
Ephemeral Tidal Presence
The speaker describes a nocturnal vision of a beloved who appears and recedes like a tidal presence. Sea imagery—pearl, coral, tide—wraps the lover’s body, which drifts between life and death as it surfaces and sinks. The poem registers longing and the instability of presence: the beloved materializes briefly, is observed with intimate attention, then dissolves again into the dream’s motion, leaving only the memory of movement and sound.
Read Complete Analysesbecause i love you last night clothed in sealace appeared to me your mind drifting with chuckling rubbish of pearl weed coral and stones; lifted,and(before my eyes sinking)inward,fled;softly your face smile breasts gargled by death rowned only again carefully through deepness to rise these your wrists thighs feet hands poising to again utterly disappear; rushing gently swiftly creeping through my dreams last night,all of your body with its spirit floated (clothed only in the tide's acute weaving murmur
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