Stephen Crane

Love Walked Alone

Love Walked Alone - meaning Summary

Lonely Love's Painful Journey

The poem personifies Love as a solitary figure wounded by a harsh world. Love endures physical and emotional injuries from rocks and brambles, and a companion arrives whose presence only deepens her suffering. The final irony—that the companion is named heart's pain—casts love as both vulnerable and inevitably linked to sorrow. The poem presents a brief, bleak meditation on love’s exposure, helplessness, and the close association between affection and anguish.

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Love walked alone. The rocks cut her tender feet, And the brambles tore her fair limbs. There came a companion to her, But, alas, he was no help, For his name was heart's pain. .

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