Response To The Beloved Speaker

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The speaker says that the beloved wants the speaker to tell them how much the speaker loves them. They want to hear a description of the love in words. The speaker responds to this by saying that she cannot do this. It is not possible for her to find the words, and she will not distance herself from her love enough to be able to describe it. In lines 9 and 10 the speaker says, “Nay, let the silence of my womanhood / Commend my woman-love to thy belief,” meaning that she is only able to feel the feeling of love, and she wishes to express this silently, through actions and feelings, not words. This response suggests that while she does love her beloved, as she says by describing her “woman-love”, she is not yet fully comfortable with the feeling.

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