This love poem begins with a stanza that really brings the reader back to the days of childhood. the author uses lines like "while the hair was still cut straight across my forehead" to give the reader the image of a young child with a childrens haircut. he also uses words like "playing " and "small people" in this stanza to further push the message that they are young. the author end the stanza by saying he married her and "called to, a thousand times, I never looked back" which I took as meaning he never thought of being with any other women.
The next stanza describe how he was deeply in love with this women wishing that thier dust would mingle together forever and how he sees no reason to climb the look out. To me this means that he is so content with where he is that he doesnt even desire to look out at the rest of the world and that they may remain still for eternity untill all theyre dust settles together.
In the third stanza the author describes how his love leaves him. he uses the monkeys sad noise as personification to set the tone of sadness and despair. this message carries over into the final stanza where he starts by saying "you dragged your feet when you went out" showing again despair and that she didnt wish to leave. he described how the seasons are coming earlier without her and that he feels he is getting Old waiting for her to return. And he ends the poem by saying if your coming back let me know and I will meet you since every moment without her is so dreadful. i feel that his wife either has died and is never coming back or she may have gone off with someone else since he seems to have been waiting for a very long time and in the days this poem was written I feel that is was very uncommon for man and wife to be seperated.
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