The burning boy: Metaphor and personification 2-2-12

Love as the burning boy in Bishop's "Casabianca": metaphor and personification.   Metaphor vs. simile.  Pound's haiku like poem.  The background in Southwell's high conceit in his "The Burning babe."  Freud and the dream of the burning child.  Love personified when all that's left of the desired other is the personified desire for the other: like her as another to who somehow is adequate to our passionate gried; like ourselves for the same reason, and neither of us, but rather the thing lost and returning to lament its loss.  Yeats's "When you are old": her face, Love's face.