“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” is a 1931 poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a famous American poet who was extremely popular in the 20th century (and beyond).
This is a poem about the pain of the subject, she has been separated from a great love and the pain is not alleviated by the passage of time. The poem spills over with natural imagery, which demonstrates the magnitude and endurance of the subject's emotional strife. Consider "I miss him in the weeping of the rain; / I want him at the shrinking of the tide." The power and majesty of nature itself reflects the subject's pain, her turmoil on par with the chaos of a storm and the force of the tides. She also sees things in purely negative terms: the rain "weeps" and the tides "shrink." Even the choice of verbs reflects the internal pain of the subject.
It is also important to note the form: this poem is an English sonnet, a classic form for a love poem. It is an ironic choice by the poet; she uses it to convey the fact that the subject is stuck in the modality of loving and romance, unable to move forward from this heartbreak.
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