Love's Loneliness
Love's Loneliness - meaning Summary
Loneliness Across Generations
The poem addresses ancestral figures as kin, asking forebears to intercede when the particular solitude of lovers arrives. It links personal longing with inherited vulnerability and seeks protection for a fragile bloodline. Natural images — a mountain shadow, a thin moon, a ragged thorn — mirror emotional desolation. The closing lines compress the poem’s mood: desire has invited dread, leaving hearts split between yearning and fear.
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