Love's Secret
Love's Secret - meaning Summary
Secret Love and Silence
Blake's "Love's Secret" warns that love thrives in silence and can be undone by disclosure. The speaker recounts confessing his heart, after which his beloved leaves and is taken by a passing, unnamed traveler described as "silently, invisibly." The poem suggests secrecy preserves desire while speech invites loss, framing love as fragile and subject to unseen, possibly moral or supernatural, forces.
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