Girl in Love
Girl in Love - meaning Summary
Awakening Into Tentative Love
The poem presents a young woman’s liminal awakening and the fragile beginnings of love. She drifts between sleep and day, sensing an inner spaciousness that could hold stars and another person. Love feels uncharted and tentative, with excitement mixed with fear: she both yearns and worries about being heard or losing herself. The poem captures a delicate movement toward intimacy and the dissolving of separate identities into a shared "I."
Read Complete AnalysesThat's my window. This minute So gently did I alight From sleep--was still floating in it. Where has my life its limit And where begins the night? I could fancy all things around me Were nothing but I as yet; Like a crystal's depth, profoundly Mute, translucent, unlit. I have space to spare inside me For the stars, too: so full of room Feels my heart; so lightly Would it let go of him, whom For all I know I have started To love, it may be to hold. Strange, as if never charted, Stares my fortune untold. Why is it I am bedded Beneath this infinitude, Fragrant like a meadow, Hither and thither moved, Calling out, yet fearing Someone might hear the cry, Destined to disappearing Within another I.
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