Silence
This poem is all about silence. The speaker and his friend parted in "silence," and now apparently are no longer speaking to one another. He grieves in silence. If he ever meets her again, he's not...
Sound and Hearing
The "quietness" in this poem is complemented by an emphasis on sound and hearing. There's a whole section in the middle where the speaker tells us what it's like to hear the woman's name spoken in...
Departure and Separation
This is definitely a poem about how saying goodbye was really hard and painful for the speaker, and how being separated from his old flame is just awful. If the poem is about saying goodbye and fee...