FOR ANNE

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44479

Aspects of the narrator:

• He is depressed, essentially he is saying he feels dead inside by saying he feels as if he has drunk hemlock (drinking hemlock will kill you).
• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains,  My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk 

• A;though he is depressed, he is not envious of the happy, if anything he is bitter. He says that they are too happy in their happiness, like mindless driads. 
• 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— 
•                 That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees 
                          In some melodious plot 
•  Not only is he depressed, but he is suicidal. 
• That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,  And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 

•  He is very stright forward and aknowledges that all things end. 
• the entire 3rd verse
•  He is fond of nature and finds comfort in it.
• he refers to nature throughout the poem but he finds comfort in it in the 4th verse
•  He is supersticious/knowledgable of folklor
• in the first verse he talks of dryads and in the 6th verse he writes of the faery lands 
• I think he is broken hearted... the woman being Ruth, whom he refers to in the 6th verse. In verse 7 he refers to a "she" as a "decieving elf".... by calling her a faery he is refering to her beauty and charm. But when h talks about her he is bitter... 

Sorry, its not much... but it what i coudl gather. The dude is def depressed... I guess you could talk about how you relate or how you feel about the poem? I personally would talk about the faery aspect of it haha