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À quoi bon dire
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Tess Holloway
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The
title
translates approximately to "
what's the point in saying
"
The poem uses
polysyndenton
(repeated
conjunctions
) for emphasis
The short lines but I and but you arrest the rhyme and place significance on you and I outside of everything else
The
ambiguous language
used suggests the universal nature of
love
and how it cycles onwards through time
A key theme of the poem is
eternity
versus
ephemerality
in the context of relationships
The poem was written around the time of world war
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