To M.
To M. - meaning Summary
Alone Yet Bound
The speaker addresses a woman, explaining that his misery is not simply lost love, time wasted, or fading joys, but the impossibility of solitude because she continues to meddle in his fate. He describes living as being "dead yet alive," weighed by past seasons and moments that cannot free him. The poem centers on involuntary emotional dependence, the paralysis of longing, and how another’s presence can prevent personal withdrawal or healing.
Read Complete AnalysesO! I care not that my earthly lot Hath little of Earth in it, That years of love have been forgot In the fever of a minute: I heed not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you meddle with my fate Who am a passer by. It is not that my founts of bliss Are gushing- strange! with tears- Or that the thrill of a single kiss Hath palsied many years- ‘Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs Which have wither’d as they rose Lie dead on my heart-strings With the weight of an age of snows. Not that the grass- O! may it thrive! On my grave is growing or grown- But that, while I am dead yet alive I cannot be, lady, alone.
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