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¶ … Walked Lightly Into my Life
The poem is a very profound and deep story about a relationship. The focus of the poem, as shown in the title and, immediately, in the first verse of the poem, is the moment of the encounter: "You walked lightly into my life." There are several things worth an analysis in this verse. First of all, as mentioned, it points to the initial, original moment of the encounter, when one of the characters appears into the other's life.
The key to this verse is the metaphor around the word "lightly." It can take several meanings. First of all, the presence of the partner is soft and non-intrusive. The partner does not wish to change the life of the other and believes in a soft approach, one that puts together the two individuals without major changes. The love comes naturally and without impositions, in a "light" form. This is not "light" in the superficial sense, but in a deeply free manner of interaction and relationship.
The bonding process is complicated: initially, the other partner does not wish to know who the other person is. Of course, this is always one of the phases of courtship and this is probably also associated to the idea that the other individual came "lightly" into the other's life. Since the...
The key verse to express this is "Now I do not even know who I am without you." It shows that the two individuals in the relationship can no longer live without each other. They are two parts of the same whole piece, to the degree to which the two parts can no longer exist separately in a coherent and meaningful manner.
The subsequent part of the poem shows the meaning of love, as the storyteller/poet explains it. For him or her, love is change: things are now entirely different that the other individual is into his or her life. Change is a process in this context: it has started at the phase when the other walked "lightly" into his life, then made things entirely different, for a long period of time, for a perpetuity. For the writer, love changed things for ever and for good, even if the other has perhaps left at some time (the verse "Just because you loved me for a moment in time" is ambiguous and could, in fact, show that the love of the other was only…
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