The first line of the poem, "Love", contains a question. This implies uncertainty. The uncertainty is reinforced with another question. The speaker here is in a dialogue with what the reader could assume is his or her love interest. The first two lines show each person's uncertainty about love and how the emotion could be defined. The third line is also a question, but it is the beginning of a turning point towards an answer in the poem.
In the third line, the speaker is first making a statement, and then asking a question
- "don't you see?". He is stating that he has come to a conclusion about the nature of love. The following line once again contains some uncertainty. Yet this uncertainty does not relate to the concept of love itself, but rather to the words to express the emotion and what it means to the speaker. There is however a conclusion about what it is.
The structure of the poem is connected with the uncertainty of the speaker that changes to certainty. This change is shown clearly through punctuation at the end of each line. The f
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