毫无疑问,这首诗的背后深藏着一种危机:毕肖普显然已无力和她的亲密伴侣、代理人兼秘书艾丽丝·麦斯塞尔再续情缘,这长达八年之久,她晚年的最后一段爱情终将落幕。虽然,诗歌追溯的是诗人过往岁月里的失落情怀,但艾丽丝的离去才是这首诗真 There is no doubt that there is a deep hidden crisis behind this poem: It is clear that Bitchop has been unable to continue her love affair with her intimate partner, agent and secretary, Alice Maxell, for eight years Love in the last part of old age will end. Although poetry traces the lost feelings of poets in the past years, Alice’s departure is the poem.