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Loss in Love and Relationships
Love ending by a grey pond. Parents who are dead and young again at a picnic. A father who will not go away.
The quotes
10 quotes, in the order they happen.
In silence and tears
Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss
How they split up. The poem starts and ends on these words. Nothing was said. Everything was felt.
Half broken-hearted
Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss
Only half. He is angry as well as sad. She got over it. He did not.
They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear
Byron · When We Two Parted · loss · romantic love
Hearing her name is like a funeral bell.
We stood by a pond that winter day
Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss · romantic love
The first line. A cold pond, a grey day. The end of something.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die
Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss
Her smile was already dead. Just alive enough to finish dying.
And a pond edged with grayish leaves
Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss
The last line. Years later, every lost love brings back that pond.
Like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away
Day-Lewis · Walking Away · parents and children · growing up · loss
His son walks off after a football match. Like a satellite torn loose. A father watching.
They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock
Causley · Eden Rock · parents and children · memory · loss
His dead parents at a picnic, young again. He is old. They wait across a stream.
I had not thought that it would be like this
Causley · Eden Rock · loss · memory
The last line, on its own. Death, or memory, is not what he expected.
But today It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away
Heaney · Follower · parents and children · growing up · loss
Now the father is old and the son cannot shake him off. The roles have swapped.
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