Analyze the poem?

Question

If You Forget Me

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail

toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Answer 1

This is a very beautiful poem, whose imagery clearly and enticingly draws us into the narrator's innermost feelings.  The closing simile/metaphor very movingly illustrates the poem's whole theme.

Answer 2

This is a person reflecting on how all things in nature remind them of their native land, thoughts and memories like little boats sailing the mind back into better days in a beloved homeland.

Answer 3

I think it is saying that she will never forget him. I believe this because he uses nature to say that as long as there is something in this world, he will never be forgotten by her. Because he everything will carry him to her, the lights, trees. So that's why in the last line he says "toward those isles of yours that wait for me" meaning she will wait for him, because she will never forget him. I don't know if I am correct, but that is the message I got from this poem.

Answer 4

This is bloody fantastic! You have a rare talent. Oh my, this is just so evocative!

Answer 5

This is really beautiful.  I love "crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window,"   -- so visual, so much a place I want to be because it is so real -- created by your magical words.

I tend to think this is a man writing to a woman because of the boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me -- it is exceedingly sensuous, when read with the acts of passion on your mind.

Well done.

This is a poem that I will not forget soon -- so your title is perfect.

T.