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In this poem as well as others, Machado is clearly speaking of an actual person -- his wife, who died very young. But he begins to see his dead wife as his divine beloved, ever present, ever calling to him, yet also just out of reach. Union, for him, can only be found in a mystical embrace.
In this way, his ache is elevated to something sacred, similar to that sought by the Troubadour poets who extolled the ideals of the unattainable courtly love several centuries earlier.
Substitute God or the Divine when he refers to his absent beloved, and see what meaning emerges...
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Ivan
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