Fueled by the central metaphor of a kiss - sensually immediate but necessarily ending - this poem invokes , too , a deeply personal and individualized sense of loneliness and solitude , underscored by such phrasings as ``quiet pain (l .6 ) and the winter landscape of ``the lonely tree (l .9 . The metaphoric linkage between the kiss and winter , loneliness , isolation , and a profound disappearance dominates the emotive impact of this poem .In contrast , ``First Fig ' breaks with the ``traditional sentimentality (Kaiser , 33 ) of the...











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