Tears - “Tears Fall in My Heart”
Paul Verlaine contends “Tears fall in my heart.” The indiscernible tears designate an excruciating heart break. The tears are emblematic for they are not parallel to the conventional tears that emanate from the eyes.
Darkness - “Sleep, Darksome, Deep”
Darkness epitomizes the haziness that is obvious during sleep. The speaker divulges, “A cradle, I,/Rocked in a grave:/Speak low, pass by.” Darkness typifies obscurity for when one is asleep, the sentient eventualities are opaque.
Rain - “It Weeps in My Heart”
The speaker pronounces, “It weeps in my heart/as it rains on the town.” The non-literal rain that wails in the speaker’s heart corresponds to the incorporeal emotional tumult that is unrelated to the familiar, detectable rain. The ramifications of the rain in “It Weeps in My Heart” are almost analogous to the tears in “Tears Fall in My Heart.”
Child - “I've Seen Again the One Child”
A child personifies animate innocence. The speaker proclaims, ”O innocence, O hope! Lowly and mild,/How I shall love you, sweet hands of my child.” A child is irreproachable, unlike adults who have yielded to the innate deficiencies of humanity. Children’s innocence is besmirched by the intrinsic flaws of humanity that appear as the child is growing and interrelating with imperfect adults.
