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Is the narator in love with jane?
Does this poem have anything to do with the student Roethke had a relationship with while teaching at Bennington College?

I loved it. The only comment I read about questioning his being in love with this student was so stupid. He said he wasn't her lover or father. He cared. He was moved. I've been that way with the death of someone I didn't know. You almost feel you have no right to care and are surprised that you do. I saw the tendrils of her sweet hair on her neck FROM his poem.

I loved the poem. I hope your other poems are this touching!

As pure and clear and plangent a bell as poetry can ring...Roethke is simple and complex at once, and acheives a rich humanity in his work- raw, deeply felt, exemplary in this gem-like case.

I like this poem, i think that it is very moving. some people think that he was in love with her, he wasn't though. it says in the reading he has on it. why would he marry a student of his? i think its wrong and stupid!