Posted by reina on January 20, 19101 at 19:36:59:

In Reply to: Re: Micheal Drayton's Poem, Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part posted by JVeres on March 25, 1999 at 22:56:31:

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: I'm not an expert at picking apart poems or anything. In fact I only found this place because I'm researching Micheal Drayton for a paper. But If it could help any, I feel it's about saying goodbye and dying hopes of love. He feels there is no way it can work, it has to end. He's given her so much of his heart, his love, and she's taken, and taken, time and again. But she hasn't given anything back. He's wanting to cut the ties to get away from any inevitable hurt that would result in staying with her. He wants to cancel out the existence of their time together, trying to close his eyes to the fact that he will never be the same again. "Now, at the last gasp of love's latest breath..." He know's it's over for good. "When, his pulse failing..." She's his heart, his love, his life, what he knows, existing for her, is being buried in ground. "Pion, speechless lies." He knows it was a lie, it goes without having to hear it, i think he's saying. "When faith is kneeling by his bed of death..." He had faith in the relationship but it's diminished. "And innocence is closing up his eyes,--" He was trying to lie to himself, pretend, fathom, that he could make it a clean break, trying to close his eyes to the fact that he would never be the same, innocently. But he is no longer ignorant. "Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, from death to life thou migtst him yet recover." Once his emotions become more still, and they resign to refrain from overcoming him, he may just be able to live again. Love again.

: Those are personal impressions. But I don't think good poetry only can have one meaning. It's great because it can have so many. Geez, Talk about a long explanation, huh? I hope I at least helped out some.:)

I want to tell you that I found very interesting what you wrote about the poem. For me it is a bout someone who is actually dying and departing from his love. A love that it was or it wasn't so good at all, but still his real love. It seems to me that she was there at this time when he did not have any hope for life. When he says that: And when we meet at any time again "Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain", It seems to me that he is trying to point out the fact that some people believe that there's another life, and that in that other encounter of them, he doesn't want any remaingning of their previous love to be found in them. For me the poem is about someone who is dying even thou he doesn't want to let life go, but there's no other choice. And thus he say goodbye to his love, maybe a forever ending of the relationship.

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