Silhouettes

"Silhouettes" by Arthur Symons is a compilation of poems from the end of the 1800s that explores love, beauty, and how quickly things change, especially looking at how light and dark affect our feelings and relationships. The poems are full of striking images and read like impressions, focusing on the soft feelings linked to love and memories. Throughout "Silhouettes," Symons investigates romantic relationships using different styles of poetry. These poems move readers to places full of feeling, from close, shared moments to the lasting memories of loves from the past. Each poem catches quick feelings, using bright images of nature and city scenes to reflect what's happening inside. Including poems like "After Sunset" and "Emmy," the collection mixes longing, beauty, and missing the past, encouraging readers to think about the complicated nature of human bonds and the short-lived beauty of life, as Symons uses language and symbols to pull readers into a world where love's many faces and life's different moods are intricately connected.