Please read carefully as the speaker is a lover with a very deep feeling of love for someone (which could be male or female) the poem did not specify.
In a nut shell, Sylvia Plath wrote this poem in form of
villanelle. When a poem has 6 stanzas (where the first 5 stanzas are 3
lines each and the last stanza is 4 lines) of which line 1 is repeated
in line 6, 12, 18 and line 3 is repeated in line 9, 15, 19; such a poem
is referred to as a villanelle.
To summarize the poem, "It seems I made you up in my brain
because you left me too soon when your love inside of me was still very
fresh and strong; leaving me with the hope that you shall soon come back
to me until now I became old and could no longer recollect your name.
Whenever I remember how memorable our encounter used to
