And If the Heart Can Not Love

By: Jose Garcia Villa

And if the heart can not love

death can not cure it nor sleep

no splendor of wound the heart had no sound Bloom has escaped it birth the miraculous flower and music and speech leave it unbewitched God it can not spell nor sun nor lover the beautiful word and it has no sound no sound nor wound

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Literal Meaning

Literal Meaning
Third Quatrain: The heart is compared to something that is non-existent when love is not present.

Figurative Meaning
First Quatrain: none Second Quatrain: personification Third Quatrain: allusion and symbolism

Symbolism
The poem doesnt have any punctuation marks. This means that it depends on the reader to interpret what the poem means. Its like a food with no seasonings making it insipid. It is something tasteless.

Imagery
First and Third Quatrain The heart has no sound- creating a mood of emptiness.

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Theme If the heart can not love things are useless. All things are devoid of its use which makes life colorless.

hank you!