I Have Loved, Let Us See If That’s All
I Have Loved, Let Us See If That’s All - meaning Summary
Love as Sensory Invasion
The speaker meditates on love as a bodily, sensuous invasion that both consumes and reveals. Using vivid taste and touch imagery, the poem traces sexual intimacy as joyful, animalistic, and fragmentary, stripping experiences down to their core "Odour." The voice questions whether loving is sufficient, oscillating between certainty and doubt, and registers an observerly aside that makes the private encounter partly shared or witnessed.
Read Complete Analysesi have loved,let us see if that’s all. Bit into you as teeth,in the stone of a musical fruit. My lips pleasantly groan on your taste. Jumped the quick wall of your smile into stupid gardens if this were not enough(not really enough pulled one before one the vague tough exquisite flowers, whom hardens richly, darkness. On the whole possibly have i loved….?you) sheath before sheath stripped to the Odour. (and here’s what WhoEver will know Had you as bite teeth; i stood with you as a foal stands but as the trees,lay,which grow
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