What is the meaning of the poem 'Lady Weeping At The Crossroads'?

Question

I don't get what the poem is about
I'd really appreciate the help
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Answer 1

Giving a website where we could read the poem would help a whole lot!! Most of us do not have the poem at our computer table!!

Chow!!

Answer 2

Lady Weeping At The Crossroads

Answer 3

What this poem is about is this: A man, perhaps a husband, knows his wife is desirous of meeting a lover - a romantic fellow, a hunter of available love (with his hawk and his glove) - and he tells her (silently, not speaking to her, but standing at a window in a castle of his mind where he can see her weeping at the crossroad symbolizing the choice between him and her lover) that she must find her lover/hunter by searching, first in the ocean for the key to a distant castle, and when she finds it, by going to that castle and bribing the guard to let her into the room where she knows the secret is behind the wainscoting in the form of a knife, which, when she looks into the mirror of truth and sees herself for what she really is, she will plunge into her heart and end her faithless life. That's what it's about.

What? You say it's not about that at all? Well, well.

Answer 4

Come on complainers!!!!!!!!!!
Ever heard of a search engine??
Or maybe she wanted someone who had actually heard of the poem before

google: Lady weeping at the crossroads
and look arround. Some guys have used it
as a song title, but you can figure it out.

www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets
/w__h__auden/poems/10103

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You know, poets do not have to have meaning.

I think it is pretty AND I also think he is asking if you would give up up any falsehood and pretense to meet your true love (or maybe your true self).

The bit about hunting dogs and hunting birds and shutting up distracting birds-- who knows?

The deep bitter ocean and the rotten bridge and paying the keeper---selfawareness doesn't come cheap.

The knife---die to your falsehoods.

Thats me WhoKnows?1995

Answer 5

Aww I like it so much it's great. Um but what's with the touching other parts????? LOL I thought something else.LOL write 2 U later.