This Poem is about the never ending struggle of love. It begins with a man talking about having sexual relations with a woman but then he shows that despite his best efforts he is unable to express his emotions to her. This leads to him becoming distant from her in both a physical and romantic sense.
The speaker in the poem is a man, I know this because the other person he is in love with is a girl. I can tell by the way he refers to her as a doll that she is obviously female. It could be that the speaker is a girl as well but the idea of ms. Wecker giving is us a poem about lesbians is highly improbable.
This poem was written to show one of the hardest things about love and relationships. The thing is the expression of feelings between two people. If one person it the relationship is unable to express his or her feelings, the relationship is doomed. It also shows that physical relationships with out an emotional connection are also meaningless if the two cannot express feelings to each other.
The poem is written in a way that replaces human emotions with physical things. The begining of the poem starts by having water represent the life of the relationship. As the poem progresses water fades away until he last mentions it by saying, "only a few drops left trembling". This shows that there is little life left in the relationship.
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