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Poet: Charles Bukowski
Poem: This Then
Comment 1 of 1, added on March 7th, 2008 at 2:53 PM.
I think this poem is about loneliness, a certain isolation - developed because this person does not
have a true love. It is about life wearing one down
to include diminished expectation. It is about someone who is willing to settle for physical relief in the absence of love. I ask - is this person a fatalist, a realist, or slightly jaded by the years? Charles Bukowski wrote this, but could the poem refer to a man OR a woman? Both?
Warren Walton from United States
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I think this poem is about loneliness, a certain isolation - developed because this person does not
have a true love. It is about life wearing one down
to include diminished expectation. It is about someone who is willing to settle for physical relief in the absence of love. I ask - is this person a fatalist, a realist, or slightly jaded by the years? Charles Bukowski wrote this, but could the poem refer to a man OR a woman? Both?
Warren Walton from United States