First Loss
First Loss - meaning Summary
Longing for Vanished Love
Goethe's 'First Loss' expresses the speaker's longing for the vanished early days of love and the impossibility of restoration. The speaker mourns in silence, tending emotional wounds and grieving each lost joy. Repetition of the central question reinforces a sense of helpless yearning and cyclical sorrow. The poem presents mourning as private, persistent, and unresolved, fixating on memory rather than action or reconciliation.
Read Complete AnalysesAh! who'll e'er those days restore, Those bright days of early love Who'll one hour again concede, Of that time so fondly cherish'd! Silently my wounds I feed, And with wailing evermore Sorrow o'er each joy now perish'd. Ah! who'll e'er the days restore Of that time so fondly cherish'd.
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