It's Like That
It's Like That - meaning Summary
Leaving and Inevitable Return
Prevert’s poem presents a resigned meditation on departure and return. Short images of people and things leaving set a pattern of loss, then shifts to repeated promises of marriage and paired opposites—knife and wound, rainbow and rain, fire and ice—suggesting reconciliation or inevitability. The speaker alternates acceptance and pleading, turning absence into a rhythm that frames human relationships as cyclical and paradoxical rather than purely tragic or consoling.
Read Complete AnalysesA sailor has left the sea his ship has left the port the king has left the queen and a miser has left his gold it's like that A widow has left her grief a crazy woman has left the madhouse and your smile has left my lips it's like that You will leave me you will leave me you will leave me you will come back to me you will marry me you will marry me The knife marries the wound the rainbow marries the rain the smile marries the tears the caress marries the frown it's like that And fire marries ice and death marries life and life marries love You will marry me you will marry me you will marry me
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