They Flee From Me
Who is "she" is the poem, They Flee From Me?
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In the midst of his lament for the women who have left him, the speaker recalls one woman in particular whose affections have lingered in his mind. She is unnamed, but the speaker describes an intimate encounter between the two of them in which the woman asks the speaker how he likes her naked body. This woman is presented as coy, flirtatious, and different from the rest; the speaker appears overwhelmed by the memory of her and must convince himself that what happened was not a dream. At the end of the poem, the speaker acknowledges her now-fickle behavior as natural, but nonetheless cannot help wondering about her and what could have been between them.
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