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Loneliness as Lifelong Sentence
The speaker frames lost love as a legal sentence: though no formal trial took place, he finds himself "sentenced to life" separated from a beloved. The courtroom image—dock, sentence, absent judge and jury—turns a private sorrow into an ironic public spectacle. The poem ends on uncertain expectation about who will visit him in this self-imposed exile, underscoring isolation and the unresolved emotional consequences of the breakup.
Read Complete AnalysesUnaware of my crime they stood me in the dock. I was sentenced to life.... without her. Strange trial. No judge. No jury. I wonder who my visitors will be.
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