Eyes Look Into the Well
Eyes Look Into the Well - meaning Summary
Grief Amid Ruined Landscape
Auden’s short lyric presents a bleak scene where external ruin mirrors inner loss. Eyes and tears, a cracked tower, buried love and robbed hearts suggest betrayal and emotional desolation. Water images—wells, brooks, flooding—carry a sense of relentless sorrow and silence. The final lines imply comforts and truths removed by others, leaving the speaker bereft and voiceless. The poem feels like a compressed portrait of grief and moral collapse.
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