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Original poem reprinted online here: "For Love" By Robert Creeley Originally read: April 28, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Robert Creeley This poem.  This poem in particular is very tough to analyze for me.  There's a lot of techniques like: ambiguous pronouns, syntax, misdirection, rhetorical reasonings and questions, time shifts, tone shifts, precise images, high conceptual language, etc. that it's hard for me to pin down because I want to write about everything.  But I need to get this done for my own sanity and moving forward.  . So the poem is one of the first well known poems of Robert Creeley which has a lot of influence in minimalism, which, in theory, doesn't give superfluous details and goes to the core right away.  So when I read these quatrains and saw the restrictions, I thought to myself how controlled and precise the poem should be. This is the wrong way to look at the poem after reading this several times.  The quatrains doesn'...