First Sight - “First sight”
“First sight” is a motif of charming, instantaneous, and harmonious love. The love is typified by enthralling chemistry between the lovers.
Crack - “The Breakup”
The crack signifies the schism between lovers that is inexorable: “But it will come! Some dead of the night with boom/to wake the wagering city, it will break, will crack.” This crack will obstruct with the connection that cements lovers; indeed, the crystallization of the break-up will be prevailing and noticeable.
Plato - “Come two, Like Shadows”
Plato’s ideology is relate to the speaker’s philosophical construal of his shadow: “His words, however, phosphoric, to my eyes-/From whom, to whom, and what they nobly mean.“ The citation of Plato infers that the speaker is philosophical about the repercussions of allegorical shadows in life.