Campana

            Campana’s emotions are strewn across his collections of poems in Orphic Songs. His knowledge of love is revealed in his poem Journey we Called Love. In his poem he uses roses as a metaphor for love, in which coincidentally roses are a symbol of love itself. “In a moment/Roses are faded/The Petals fallen” (151). Campana uses the physical appearance of a rose to exemplify the way love and a relationship end. The flower begins to die similar to how a relationship seems to be fading away. The relationship breaks down and there is nothing left comparable to that of a rose losing its petals. Campana continues with his analysis of love and a relationship by stating, “We looked for them together [roses]/We found some” (151). In this instance he is referring to love and a connection when he talks about roses. He is trying to find any emotion of love he can. “With our blood and tears we made roses/That sparkled a moment in the morning sun… We made the roses fade that were not our roses/My roses her roses/ P.S. And so we forgot the roses” (151). Campana was able to find some connection of love for the moment. A moment that lasted only for a period until he realized that the love they had discovered was not genuine love. They moved on and left the love [roses] behind. Campana expresses the route in which love can take and the mistake of believing there may be love when in actuality it does not exist.