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Resentment, anger and bitterness all take hold and their love is no longer what it was, they’re taking different roads and no longer travelling together.

As in some relationships with young people, feelings of happiness wear off, and in the case of Ian, his mental health added to the destruction of their relationship. As time passes the two begin to resent each other, which means happy feelings (love, lust, joy) just aren’t there anymore. As they grow individually, they change as people…as a couple.

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Continuing to address the mourners Guy De Vere, in anger, questions their sincerity. Are the same people who slandered her while she lived going to mourn her passing? The same tongues used to slander her used to sing the hymns at the funeral of an innocent person

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Guy De Vere is here addressing the other mourners, claiming they only loved her for her wealth and hated the pride she had for herself and when she fell ill, they wanted her to die

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“Some things never are… and we were.” At least we were what we were, it was something. “I’ll remember who I was when I met you.” As time passes people change but we can always look back at the experiences that shape who we are and we learn from everything. He was somebody different at that point to what he is now. The experience has passed but the emotions remain in time

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Love can teach us things about ourselves we may never have known were there. In love we can lose ourselves in a person losing almost all sense of control and when that person is unable to return that love and provide some balance it can be hard to make sense of the situation, ourselves or our emotions. It can be a struggle, suffering rejection can sometimes mean rejecting ourselves and having to learn to love ourselves again

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John Lennon was the founding member of The Beatles and along with Paul McCartney, the main songwriter. With this comparison Lupe is saying his written lyrics are like the foundation of the song and fits with the beat (rest of The Beatles) to form something legendary

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West Side Chicago is a place like many in America scarred by poverty and the effects of that pverty such as neglect, ignorance and desperation expressed in a certain lifestyle. With the word ‘universe’ Lupe is describing it as completely seperate for everything, a different universe has it’s own laws of nature, it’s own existence seperate from anything going on in any other ‘universe’

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The focus on her youth makes the poem evermore tragic for she passed before she enjoyed her life. The narrator wishes to get through the burial rites quickly

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On this dark day lies the rigid body of the lost love, Lenore

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Guy De Vere, the partner, lover and/or admirer of Lenore sheds no tears at her passing

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