Sometimes with One I Love
Sometimes with One I Love - meaning Summary
Unreturn'd Love Transformed
Whitman presents a short, candid reflection on unrequited love. He admits to feeling rage and fear when affection seems unreturned, then revises that judgment: love, he argues, is never truly lost because it yields other returns. The speaker transforms personal disappointment into creative output, framing the poems themselves as the compensation for an unreciprocated attachment and linking private feeling to poetic production.
Read Complete AnalysesSOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn’d love; But now I think there is no unreturn’d love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return’d; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
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