Flesh and Point

Each of these poems share a common theme of "separation" of bodies and loss. In "They flee from me", Henry Wyatt refers to a lover or mistress who once came to him but does not any longer. In "Song" by Christina Rossetti, she advises her survivor to not cry for her but to remember her, then forget. In "Villanelle" by Marilyn Hacker, she describes how every day, we meet, touch, and talk then separate without understanding why we see so much goodness in simple acts. These poems entice us to think about relationship and how departing from one another is more than it seems. It's one thing to lose a lover, another to depart from a friend, and another from dying and leaving a love behind. But they are linked in separation. If there were no such thing as separation, life and love could possibly go on. But eventually everyone separates, dies away, and come back together to grow anew. I picked up on themes of flesh and how flesh is the conductor for relationships, whether it be sexual or platonic. Flesh lives with us and even separates from us in death. Sometimes I think that separation is necessary for relationships to improve or even new life to grow.