Of that love, of that mile
walked together in the rain,
only a weariness remains.
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Of that love is one of the early poems of Jayanta Mahapatra which he wrote in the beginning and from the early collections of his poetry wherein he tries to recollect and reminisce what it is love, what it the feeling of it, how have the times fled, how the memories lingering by. Jayanta as a poet is first an image-maker. Of that love is a poem of recollection, reminiscence and remembrance. The poem is like Lost Love, Wordsworth’s sweet remembrance about Lucy Gray.
'Of that Love' is a remembrance, a sweet memory of that love which but existed once, o that love which bound both of them into an emotional bonding, sympathetic bond, but that love is gone perhaps, where is she now? He just remembers.