Always
Always - meaning Summary
Jealousy Surrendered to Love
The speaker renounces jealousy and welcomes his beloved with any past she brings. He lists exaggerated images of former lovers and forces—crowds and a river of drowned men—to stress that her history does not threaten their bond. Rather than counting or condemning, he invites all those presences toward him, confident that they will vanish into a private, shared life. The poem moves from abundance to intimacy, presenting acceptance as the condition for beginning a committed relationship together.
Read Complete AnalysesI am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet. Come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; We shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I, alone on earth to start our life!
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