Don't You Look at Me So
Don't You Look at Me So - meaning Summary
Rejecting Reality for an Ideal
The speaker rebuffs a woman who seems modest but predatory, insisting he will not be trapped as others have tried. He admits he does not love her; she is only a stand-in for an imagined, blue-eyed ideal whose cool poise has reignited him. That ideal cannot be deceived and draws him against his will, while the present woman cannot truly enter his heart with pretty lies. The closing reflection suggests people invent consolations, like heaven and hell, when none exist, implying his devotion to an imagined love is itself a human-made belief.
Read Complete AnalysesDon't you look at me so reproachfully. I do not bear malice to you, but I like your appearance awfully and your seeming modesty, too. Yes, you seem to be openhearted, and I'd rather be glad to see how a fox pretending departed catches crows like you want to catch me. Try to catch me, I won't be daunted mind, you don't have your ardour restrained! Many girls of your kind have haunted stumbling over my heart that waned. It's not you that I love, my dearie, you're only an echo, a shade, I imagine a different girlie, oh so beautiful blue-eyed maid! Though she isn't so humble-looking and appears to be rather cool, her majestic manner of walking has rekindled the depth of my soul. She's a girl that cannot be cheated, not withstanding your will she'll entice, whereas you can't be possibly fitted in my heart with embellished lies. Though I scorn you, yet like a layman I will shyly and openly say: If there weren't any hell and heaven man would think something up anyway.
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