I take it very literally also. I thinkit's about an aristocratic type young woman who has a ghost companion.
I don't think it's a women mourning her husband as the poem is fairly light hearted and the tone in her voice is all wrong for that.
Also things like "how many centuries since you've climbed a balcony" if she was mourning then I he'd not have been born centuaries ago.
"why is it me you've chosen to follow" It would be obvious why he'd chosen her is he was her dead lover no?
I think people are trying to look into this too much, it's just an iteresting little story.
I take it very literally also. I thinkit's about an aristocratic type young woman who has a ghost companion. I don't think it's a women mourning her husband as the poem is fairly light hearted and the tone in her voice is all wrong for that. Also things like "how many centuries since you've climbed a balcony" if she was mourning then I he'd not have been born centuaries ago. "why is it me you've chosen to follow" It would be obvious why he'd chosen her is he was her dead lover no?
I think people are trying to look into this too much, it's just an iteresting little story.
Maybe I'm wrong but that's what I think.
Maybe she looks like the ghost's lover,who had also passed away.That could have made him follow her.
Maybe she looks like the ghost's lover,who had also passed away.That could have made him follow her.