Absence
Absence - meaning Summary
Love Persists Through Absence
A speaker addresses a beloved, exploring how absence and presence coexist. The beloved remains vivid inside the speaker even after parting, sometimes wounded or overwhelmed by love. The poem depicts a consuming, reciprocal passion that brings both sustenance and injury—thirsts quenched, hunger fed, and wounds inflicted like bites of fire. Despite this intensity, the speaker asks for patience and promises a gentle gift, a rose, as a token of continuing care.
Read Complete AnalysesI have scarcely left you When you go in me, crystalline, Or trembling, Or uneasy, wounded by me Or overwhelmed with love, as when your eyes Close upon the gift of life That without cease I give you. My love, We have found each other Thirsty and we have Drunk up all the water and the Blood, We found each other Hungry And we bit each other As fire bites, Leaving wounds in us. But wait for me, Keep for me your sweetness. I will give you too A rose.
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