Boy.by *JakesExceptionCommentsThe first half of your theory isn't particularly accurate...
However, the second half is pretty damn close. I'm glad you picked up on the pity side of things, and even more happy that you took the time to re-read the piece to reach a conclusion. Thank you for your critique. No problem. That's why I said it was how I alone interpreted it, I was almost positive that wasn't it's actual meaning!
I say, good sir, well done. Keep it up with works like this. My poetry is almost all different - I like to experiment with different styles. I may revisit this particular method soon, but I have some other ideas to toy with first.
Thanks again. |
The meaning, to me anyhow, is that a man (judging by the title, the "narrator" is a male) feels like he wants too much of a physical relationship and it makes his significant other (didn't give a gender, so I'll leave it at that) sad, resent-filled, or even just plain angry. Or maybe he was too rough, in a sense? Either way, in the end, it seems to me that the pain becomes too much for him to bear and he feels it necessary to burn the pain away, or simply kill him with the same burning that caused the more physical than emotional relationship.
Even if that's not the original intent, that's how I interpret it. And it made me cringe at first. But then I softened and looked deeper, noticing how much a character like that could be in pain. (that wording might not have been correct)
I have never read a better poem, aside from anything by Robert Frost. Exceptional. I literally have no complaints.