Sarah Teasdale in her beautiful poem “I Am Not Yours” explains the unconditional and unexplainable love between two individuals who despite being blindly in love with each other cannot stay together. There is a beautiful hope that someday the two lovers will be united; in fact united forever.
Both of them are patiently waiting for that day to arrive. This poem is the love story of all the individuals who cannot be together despite being madly in love. The reasons are common; the family is against them, or at times they cannot be together because of the age difference, different backgrounds, the bar between the rich and the poor and certain other factors.
But despite all this, ‘hope’ is what never dies in the heart of these individuals. They hope against hope to be together at some point of their life sooner or later. The head and heart of the poetess are running in two different directions as a result of which she is not in a position to trust anyone. As a matter of fact she cannot even trust herself.
She just needs those people in her life who promise to not leave her be whatever the conditions. Here Sarah insists that she has some untold secrets which she is only willing to share with the people she loves. But she is scared to share these secrets because she is doubtful that these people might leave her alone.
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“I Am Not Yours” beautifully explains that even though an individual has everything in life, he or she is always scared of loneliness, everyone above anything in life, wish to stay with people they love. The love portrayed in the poem might also mean the love established between God and his disciples which is unconditional and cannot be explained. Though the society might be against too much about bonding between an individual God but an individual cannot do away with the truth.
The poetess is so much moved by the feeling of love that she is now blind and deaf and cannot think of doing anything except to love the other person unconditionally. Love is like worship to her and she has deeply immersed herself in the feelings of love.
The lover has now turned into a dreamer and all the attempts made by her family members of her peers fail to convince her against the love she possesses. Her love knows no boundaries and limits and it is impossible for anyone to understand the kind of love she feels deep down inside.
These feelings are not unknown to the present world. Any individual who is deeply in love with any other individual can feel perfectly what Sarah felt for her lover. Love was, is and always will be eternal; the world can change, the people can change but it is impossible for anyone to change the feelings of people in love.