The Broken Heart Themes

In "The Broken Heart" we see a heart get devoured and destroyed—good times. That's the price of being in love, though, at least according to the poem's speaker. The entire poem is a treatise on w...

Love and suffering go hand in hand together in "The Broken Heart." It's kind of like love is the chocolate and suffering is the peanut butter, and the speaker of the poem is taking a big bite out o...

Between all the crying and fist-biting and weeping and wailing, it's easy to overlook how "The Broken Heart" is also a poem about awe and amazement. Still, once you get past how bummed out the spea...