Poems For Ella (Iv) Comments

This fourth ELLA poem is the first one which describes a RELATIONSHIP between you and Ella. It also alludes to her origins, dispelling a bit of her mystery. You admit she is imaginary, a creature of the mind, and clearly in the category if an ANIMA, Jung's term for the ideal female image in the male psyche. But perhaps psychologizing ELLA is the wrong way to respond because it turns her into an object. In the poem you affirm her benign role in your life: she soothes physical pains, eases aging, provides joie de vivre, gives you cause to praise the world and be happy in it. And she makes no demands on you. You can bustle freely in the world at large.