The Look....

The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,

Robin in the fall,

But Colin only looked at me

And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,

Robin’s lost in play,

But the kiss in Colin’s eyes

Haunts me night and day.

The poem maybe just made by 9 lines but it tells a long story …

My interpretation of this poem is that there is this girl that had different lovers in the past. It tells us her memories towards the boy that she loved and how she felt upon leaving the relationship. The season for me tells about the relationship and that it was always changing never meant to last forever. Strephon was maybe her lover and that there relationship did not last because of some misunderstandings and was not at the right time.Strephon’s memory which symbolises the kiss was forgotten by the girl and that she forgot all the memories that came between them. Next was Robin, just like the relationship between the girl and Strephon.. The relationship did not work out at all and decided to put and end to it. The kiss of Robin also symbolizes all the memories that both of them shared which was also forgotten by her. Then came a boy named Colin which he only looked at her and never gave a kiss. This look gave a big impact to the life of the girl and that she can not stop thinking about him. There are only two possible things that could happen. It’s either that Colin loved the girl but he could not express it or does the girl love him but Robin doesn’t. This is the part where I am now puzzled… One of the outcomes that I thought was that Colin was also a suitor of the girl which the girl put down for the other two Guys. Because of this Colin was crushed and decided not to ask for the girl’s love anymore. The girl then felt that it wasn’t Strephon and Robin that she love but it was Colin. The girl talked to Colin but there she saw that Colin’s feelings have changed and that he does not love her anymore. So this follows to the line of the poem “But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day”. The kiss which means that the memories that they could have shared can never ever happen anymore which she regretted every night and day.

thinking and reading the poem, that’s when I realized that we should accept every decision that we make and try to live on if ever our decisions our wrong.