To You
To You - meaning Summary
An Intimate Urgent Address
The speaker invites a private, confidential encounter, asking the addressee to step aside from social formality. They plead for absolute candor—“the whole story”—including what the person would not tell close family or a doctor. The poem foregrounds intimacy, trust, and a desire to know interior truth beyond public roles. It frames confession as a rare gift shared only in complete privacy between two people.
Read Complete AnalysesLET us twain walk aside from the rest; Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony, Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician.
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