Going to Him! Happy letter! Analysis

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Going to Him! Happy letter!
Tell Him—
Tell Him the page I didn't write—
Tell Him—I only said the Syntax—
And left the Verb and the pronoun out—
Tell Him just how the fingers hurried—
Then—how they waded—slow—slow—
And then you wished you had eyes in your pages—
So you could see what moved them so—

Tell Him—it wasn't a Practised Writer—
You guessed—from the way the sentence toiled—
You could hear the Bodice tug, behind you—
As if it held but the might of a child—
You almost pitied it—you—it worked so—
Tell Him—no—you may quibble there—
For it would split His Heart, to know it—
And then you and I, were silenter.

Tell Him—Night finished—before we finished—
And the Old Clock kept neighing "Day"!
And you—got sleepy—and begged to be ended—
What could it hinder so—to say?
Tell Him—just how she sealed you—Cautious!
But—if He ask where you are hid
Until tomorrow—Happy letter!
Gesture Coquette—and shake your Head!

.: Poem Analysis :.

I think that this poem is about a woman who is trying to tell her man that she no longer loves him. The first hint is when she says, "And left the verb and the pronoun out." Pronoun=you and I, verb=love (I love you). She leaves that syntax out because she doesn't feel that way anymore. She hurries to tell him, but then slows down her writing because she doesn't know how to put it.
He then comes and starts untying her dress, and she can't do anything intimate with him because she no longer has feelings like that for him. So she makes up a quibble to avoid the situation and then they go to sleep.
They talk all night and he finally tells her that he needs to go to bed because she hasn't said what she really wants to (hence hinder), which is to say she doesn't want to be with him anymore.
She seals the letter with caution because she isn't sure if she really wants to do it, but when he sees her with the letter he asks what it is and she says that she will give it to him tomorrow while flirtatiously hiding it behind her back.

| Posted on 2008-02-04 | by a guest