quotes

• "why not I with thine?" & "if thou not kiss me"
• "the fountains mingle with the river and the rivers with the ocean"

  • natural imagery used to show that the poet views love and unity as the most natural ting on earth
  • they should be together
  • everything in earth is connected
• "nothing in the world is single"

  • hyperbole to try and pressurise the other person
• "why not I with thine?"

  • rhetorical question - frustration they cannot be together