Love After Love

Love After Love- Derek Walcott

• About how to love yourself after a break up or the loss of a partner
• Short sentences- direct and formal
• No structure- broken feeling, stanzas flow and merge
• Gives commands (Imperatives)- assertive, take control
• 1. "Time will come"- will heal but not immediate. Biblical images run through, verse "there's a time to". Jesus' most important commandment was to love yourself as your neighbour
• 3. "You will greet yourself arriving" -2ndperson-speaks directly to engage. Image of hospitality-kind
• 4. "Own…