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Question: What do you think the exact meaning of this poem is!.!.!.!?
Let Love Go, If Go She Will
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let love go, if go she will!.
Seek not, O fool, her wanton flight to stay!.
Of all she gives and takes away
The best remains behind her still!.
The best remains behind; in vain
Joy she may give and take again,
Joy she may take and leave us pain,
If yet she leave behind
The constant mind
To meet all fortunes nobly, to endure
All things with a good heart, and still be pure,
Still to be foremost in the foremost cause,
And still be worthy of the love that was!.
Love coming is omnipotent indeed,
But not Love going!. Let her go!. The seed
Springs in the favouring Summer air, and grows,
And waxes strong; and when the Summer goes,
Remains, a perfect tree!.
Joy she may give and take again,
Joy she may take and leave us pain!.
O Love, and what care we!?
For one thing thou hast given, O Love, one thing
Is ours that nothing can remove;
And as the King discrowned is still a King,
The unhappy lover still preserves his love!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
That's so sad!.
The meaning is simple (though as I waded through the archaic language, I thought it must be very deep and complicated!.!.but it is not!.)
It says it all in the last line!.!.!."The unhappy lover still preserves his love!."
I know that feeling, that situation, only too well!.
She is gone, and he still feels the love!.!.but now he feels it as pain!.
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Let her go it says!.!.!."the best remains behind her still!. the best remains behind IN VAIN!."
!.!.!.!.that says it all too!. It says she has left the love, it still exists just as strong and alive as it was!.!.but now it is in vain!.!.!.so !.!.!.a source of great sorrow now, instead of joy!.
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And when he says "The unhappy lover still preserves his love" !.!.!.
I take that as meaning that by pining, by being wrapped up in the greiving!.!.he is actually keeping the love alive (but in such a sad misery-producing way!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It's the meaning of love and hate, have you heard of love and hate!? it's exact meaning is that love comes and goes, because love is the wild card it can never be tamed forever, but it's better to have than never to have it at all!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It is love personified - the poet is speaking of love as though it were a person!. It is about what love can provide you but at the same time what love can take away - what are the emotions the feelings that accompany it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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