I don't think she's dead at all, after all, she ripped up his imploring letters with 'long fingered hands'.
I think this is about the soul-searching, vacant grief, and longing that happens when a lover ends a relationship that had seemed to be working. The reference to laying her ghost down is an allegory of trying but failing to move on. She decided to become nobody's baby now; he travels the world and searches through the books on human behavior to try and understand why, still he does not know.
I don't think she's dead at all, after all, she ripped up his imploring letters with 'long fingered hands'.
I think this is about the soul-searching, vacant grief, and longing that happens when a lover ends a relationship that had seemed to be working. The reference to laying her ghost down is an allegory of trying but failing to move on. She decided to become nobody's baby now; he travels the world and searches through the books on human behavior to try and understand why, still he does not know.