... to retreat "far away" and "forget" what he knows and can't have. Although the narrator longs for the music that Lawrence suggests the bird intones, the narration suggests, as does Lawrence, that the yearning for something outside himself is a present conflict of the text. The last stanza of the poem begins with, "Forlorn! The very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!"(71 ... differently. On the one hand, the question seems to present a vast horizon of indeterminacy, ending on this statement and final question; however the text employs distinctly the tools to ...

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