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It is in the nature of poems to mean different things to different people but for me this is a sombre love poem showing how love blinds the lover to the reality of the intrinsic and inevitable defects in the beloved
and of the uselessness of methods, effective in ordinary life for the purpose of managing a love situation. After a lifetime of struggle, you may find yourself no further forward than when you began.
The lantern is seen as a method, usually unwelcome and spurned, of seeing the brutal reality of the beloved as a human being with all that that entails.
A magnificent, tight, dense and concise work of art.
robin cross from United Kingdom