Summary or ysis of a poem?

"Twice" is spoken by a courageous woman who, with some reluctance, has made overtures to the man she loves. Her lover's response has shattered her faith in the value of love. "Till the corn grows brown" - She cannot, however, wait till harvest time. Indeed, this experience has altogether destroyed her capacity to pursue earthly pion. Her lover "set [her heart] down" and "it broke." "Twice" operates at a level of cultural criticism. The attack implicit in its four brief stanzas is upon the powerlessness of women in a rigid patriarchal society. The man's words are spoken with absolute and final authority. Along with the sanctions of love in approved social forms and contexts, the speaker here indignantly and impatiently renounces the natural world, and, now penitent for her presumptuous quest, she approaches God. She thus acknowledges the uncertainty of eros, but also, aware that her quest for earthly love was misguided, she acknowledges her need to be chastened and "purged" in order to become worthy of Gods superior love. ♥