by Whitman · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
Brief lyric on the fear of unreturned love resolved by the insight that out of unrequited love come these songs; love, unrequited love and the making of art.
Connections
Motifs: Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Unrequited Frustrated Love, Romantic Love, Artist and Society
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn’d love, But now I think there is no unreturn’d love, the pay is certain one way or another, (I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return’d, Yet out of that I have written these songs.)