A lifelong commitment is not the easiest thing to foresee I'd say. I know directly the experience of that kind of commitment, and am searching my memory for a clue whether I knew from the start that's how it would go. If I did, I would suppose it must've been by affective knowledge, as opposed to the express kind. I think I did feel quite attached. It was in fact the deepest attachment I've ever had. I think the deeper the attachment, the more pain and grief when torn asunder.
So while I rather like the poem, to believe it, I must assume the foreseer had a nature like EB Browning's. Her love poems to Robert have the ring of very deep attachment.
A lifelong commitment is not the easiest thing to foresee I'd say. I know directly the experience of that kind of commitment, and am searching my memory for a clue whether I knew from the start that's how it would go. If I did, I would suppose it must've been by affective knowledge, as opposed to the express kind. I think I did feel quite attached. It was in fact the deepest attachment I've ever had. I think the deeper the attachment, the more pain and grief when torn asunder.
So while I rather like the poem, to believe it, I must assume the foreseer had a nature like EB Browning's. Her love poems to Robert have the ring of very deep attachment.