You have broken my heart - Sri Chinmoy

You have broken my heart
by Sri Chinmoy

O my mind,
Time and again
You have broken my heart
With false promises.
You are so cruel!
You are such a liar!
Even though my heart is broken,
It is healing the wounds
You have inflicted on my dedication-life.

[ SIFTSEI ]
Sense: This poem is about a person whose heart is broken. The poem gives me a feeling of affliction.

Intention: It is written to show the readers how losing one's lover is melancholy. It describes the one's broken heart.

Feeling: This poem gives me the feeling of depression. When I read this poem, I also become melancholy, because I know how the author feels. I know what it means by broken heart.

Tone: The tone of the poet is sorrowful and fierce. When the author says, "You are so cruel!", I could feel how sorrowful and mad he is.

Style / Symbol: The author used talking style in the poem. When I read this poem, I receive a feeling of poet's talking. His style tells his feeling more directly to the readers. When the author says, "It is healing the wounds", the wounds stands for his / her broken heart. Also the 'dedication-life' symbolizes the poet's love towards his / her lover.

Emotion: The emotion of this poem is sorrow, cruelness, depression, and madness.

Imagery: This poem gives me a vision of a man crying in his room holding a picture of him and his lover. It also gives me a vision of a man crying so sorrowful, and almost became insane.

[ Analysis ]
I totally agreed with this poem. The poem is about a person who lost his lover which is definitely sorrowful. I can see the poet's sorrow by his tone. His tone makes me feel really sorrowful and depressed. Also when the poet says, "You are so cruel! You are such a liar!" I can see how he feels mad and heavy. When I first read this poem, it gave me a vision of a totally depressed man who has a broken heart. In the poem, 'wound' stands for the lost of his lover and 'dedication-life' stands for his love towards his lover. The main theme of this poem is the depression of broken heart. It tells me how melancholy losing one's lover is.