A Song of Despair Foolishness and Folly Quotes

The woman is described as a cave where hapless, shipwrecked sailors ended up. She's like the ultimate destination for foolhardy voyagers, and you can count our speaker among them.

The comparison of the woman to the sea, which swallows up everything, is paired with the reason for their shipwreck: their love was wild and mad… and pretty much foolish.

The speaker feels like a shipwrecked sailor, one of those brave souls who crazily went out to discover new lands and never came back. In the same way, he can never really come back from his love affair.