Multiple Realms

The speaker provides multiple settings where they can describe their love. The settings are both personal and corporeal – “with me” (1), “in / my heart” (1-2) – and seemingly boundless – “(anywhere / I go” (2-3), “higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)” (13). By refusing to settle on a single setting, the speaker generates a feeling of love that is all-encompassing and limitless.

The Natural World

At the same time, the speaker sets many of the poem’s metaphors in nature. Their love is at the “moon” (8) and the “sun” (9). It goes from the ground to the sky, traveling through “a tree called life” (12), through “the root and the bud” (11) to “the sky” (12) and even “the stars” (14). By associating their love with the natural world, the speaker suggests that it is something organic, something which makes sense in accordance with the laws of the universe.