
My thoughts from reading through some of the poem collection for the first time was that the speakers were talking about everyday things in life in quite a cynical way. Something in particular which made me think this was that love was described as unsatisfying and pointless and marriage as almost being a death sentence. I also got the idea that the poems were saying that anything that brings us joy is only temporary as we'll all end up dying, so anything which we do for happiness is just something to distract us until we die.

Now I have read more into the poems I have realised that there is more to them than just misery, death and loneliness which I will discuss in future blog posts.
I have enjoyed the poems I've read so far and I am looking forward to reading and studying more of them.
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