Perceptions on Lost Love Poetry Analysis
Perceptions on Loss Loss is something we all have to deal with at one point or another. ... Other losses we feel more intensely, including the loss of an opportunity, the loss of an ideal, or the loss of love. Any loss, whether great or small, has an impact on the loser, but the loss of love can be one of the hardest to overcome. ... “Ebb” specifies only "your love died" not the loved one necessarily (Millay, 1. ... But be it by death or other means, the love once shared by the speaker with another is gone. ... Sometimes you lose more than what is lost. In other words, the loss of love diminishes the life of the loser (at least temporarily). ... The speaker implies that life is seeping away from her without love to sustain it like a pool "drying inward from the edge" (1. ... On the other hand, in "Grief" the speaker cannot feel at all, but has not lost the will to live. ... Just like the pool will ultimately dry up without the tide to sustain it, so will her heart die without the love she has lost.