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At first, the poem seem like a poem about a woman’s lasting love towards her dead lover.
But then, i found out, that she’s a lesbian and that the one she loves, does not feel the same towards her. So, it’s unrequited love.
When the person the poet loves “smiled” when she saw “some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear”, this suggests that the person the poet loves is longing to find a relationship with a guy and be happy like the boy and girl.
“I shall have tossed your hair” seems sad to me. It’s like, she knows that the person that she loves is longing to be loved by a guy. The poet knows that she does not love her back and the poet kinda accepted it but she will continue loving her and it doesn’t matter to her that that person she loves won’t love her back.
“Good-bye”, the capitalisation suggests inevitability. It’s like she had no choice but to say goodbye to the one she loves. This is probaly because being lesbian was unacceptable by victorian society. So she had no choice but to say goodbye to the one she loves. But I don’t think the poet ever lost hope.
I personally thought that this poem didn’t have much lesbian-like perspective untill the end when Mew declared “I shall have tossed your hair”. But i think Mew was trying to emphasise that people who arn’t straight can feel the love as everyone else feels it and the fact that it could be stronger. That is why her love is eternal and also thats why there was no bitterness to the atmosphere throughout the poem. I thought the “Good-bye” wasn’t suggesting inevitability but was actually just a “Good” bye. As we know Mew is not extremely sad or going throught traumatic experiences because her lover had died, but we can feel that theres still that bit of sadness, longing left in her heart. I guess you can say that shes even excited to “grow stiff and cold” as its one step closer from reuniting with her love.
this is a very touching poem, the poet’s love to her lover is eternal, death alone can not separate their souls, although they are not in the same world anymore, the poet still loves her lover as if she is still alive.
very nice poem, at first i thought that Mew’s lover did not love her in return then was convinced by the powerpoint otherwise and now stand confused as to which they loved one another or Mew was the only one that loved her. the theme of undying love in this poem is strong and very heart-warming. so was Mew the only one that loved or did they love each other??
In the last Stanza Charlotte Mew Contrast a straight relationship to a homosexual relationship(Or her own love) and how the to will love each other in different way. “Some boy and girl will meet and Kiss and Swear” She does not use atypical words like destiny or passion but uses the words “meet” like if it was organised or business like and with a contract “and kiss and swear” metaphorically represents a human signature and swear is the contract where they are bond to. In the other hand in the distance “while over there” Charlotte Mew uses this to show the position of her love as if it was not in the same location as Straight marriage but somewhere else where happiness and passion is fond “You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair”.