Knowing how bad he feels, how much he grieves, how sharply aware he is of the separation between himself and God (all knowledge starts from this), he extorts from this terrible absence a consolation, extrapolating, to think how it has to be, at the other end, much worse for God, who must also grieve cut off from him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROBERT FROST RELATES THE DEATH OF THE TIRED MAN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER WOMEN AND ROSES by ROBERT BROWNING THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR by ROBERT FROST THE GRANDMOTHER'S APOLOGY by ALFRED TENNYSON SABBATH MORNING by L. DALE AHERN |