... astronomers believed the planets were mounted. Thus, the first three stanzas present a process of transvaluation, where things are rarely what they seem and significance does not match appearance. The mutuality of the lovers, unlined in the insistent pronouns "and "is opposed to the outside observers (the ) who cannot understand what they see. Thus, as reader we begin to understand this kind of love, not as outsiders, but ... as insiders. The mode of definition by exclusion continues in he fourth stanza, where ... the poet describes an earthbound () purely sensual love (whose soul is )....

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• Grade Level: High School