Heart, We Will Forget Him
Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done pray tell me, Then I, my thoughts, will dim. Haste! ‘lest while you’re lagging I may remember him!
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Heart, We Will Forget Him - meaning Summary
Choosing to Forget a Love
The poem presents a speaker negotiating with her own heart to forget a past lover. She issues a pact of deliberate forgetting, alternating command and confession: the heart must relinquish warmth while she will extinguish the light. Urgency and fear of relapse run through the lines, revealing how memory resists willpower. The brief address captures the tension between intentional forgetting and involuntary remembrance.
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