Throughout the poem, Aurora proves to be emotionally incomplete. To sit alone, and think, for comfort, how, that very night, Affianced lovers, leaning face to face . . . Are reading happly from some page of ours. In other words, she pines for a love and at times seems to be drafting her poetry out of grief. As in Little Dorrit, the loner theme here becomes modified also.
Art is much, but love is more.
Art symbolizes heaven, but Love is God. These lines show that Aurora has made a 360 degree turn since the beginning of her poem, when she spurned Romney's proposal. Now she believes that she must not live without the love she once cursed. Aurora's attitude change is more drastic than that of Little Dorrit. Denial of love was necessary to the production of Aurora's great poem. . .