Anthony Kisor Introduction
Loving Someone Who Doesn't Love you
"there's nothing there now / except the wilderness people call nature, / the chaos that takes over." When it comes to love and relationships most everyone feels the same when they come to an end. Like all people we feel a sense of dread like the world is coming to an end. The poems within this collection are poems written to past lovers in their life that were very dear to the speaker. How can this person leave me like this? Why do I feel this way when the relationship itself was so good.
In Marina, Louise Glück describes what it's like to lose the closest person to you. A person who never felt the same way towards you. The speaker describes that it was hard to care for another person and when that person went over the figurative walls of the speaker's heart, the speaker will holds that person in high importance. When that person left the speaker, the speaker was absolutely left in absolute devastation.
However in Circe's Torment, Glück explains a forbidden love between a goddess and a mortal. Describing the anguish of Circe who had to give up loving a mortal man because of the Olympian laws she was faced with as a goddess. Facing this law and ultimately giving up this love Circe regrets loving this man at all.
In, The Dream, we go to a speaker who once was married and while dreaming about being married again goes and tells the readers that this wasn't a perfect marriage and there is a good reason why it ended. The relationship ended because no one knew why they were getting together, not even the two getting married knew why.
Next in, "Oh God" Michelle Tea takes us to a freshly broken up relationship where the speaker knows the breakup was coming. Like all people the speaker loved the relationship, however knew that they weren't right for each other and the relationship was ended.
The fifth poem "Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True" we go to a woman who's lover was recently deceased and bargains for his life. By stating all these things that she would do for Douglas she attempts to convince her recently parted lover to come back from the dead and be with her.
Finally in "You Smiled, You Spoke, and I believed." the speaker is someone who is infatuated with someone who manipulates and controls the speaker by simply flashing a smile and sweet talking the speaker. However, the speaker knows about the deceit, but does nothing to end the relationship instead embracing the deceit and wanting to be loved even though this isn't love but instead infatuation.
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