To answer this question you need to think about the
context of this poem. We are not given any firm details, but we can infer that the
speaker has just found out for some reason that the love she has for a man is not
returned. Thus this poem captures the age long agony of unrequited love, or of love that
is expressed towards someone else but not returned. Trying to move on from this
experience and put the emotions, feelings, thoughts and memories behind you is
incredibly difficult. Thus it is that the speaker expresses her desperate desire in the
first line of the poem:
Heart! We will forget
him!
Her earnest wish is to
somehow forget the man she was in love with and move on. However, as we read the poem,
we begin to understand that despite this desire, she will find it far more difficult
than she thinks, and "moving on" is not that simple.
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