Dead Love Summary
Elizabeth Siddal

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"Dead Love" is an 18-line lyric poem by English poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal. It first appeared in print in the 1890s when it was posthumously published by Siddal's brother-in-law William Michael Rossetti. The exact composition date of the poem is unknown. "Dead Love," like many of Siddal's poems, is fraught with sadness and doubt. In the poem, a jaded speaker cautions a presumably younger addressee not to put their faith in love, which the speaker argues is fickle and impossible.

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