| Quote #1 For my first twenty years, since yesterday, (line 1)
One of the main themes of the poem is how the speaker's sense of
reality is twisted around by the calamity that has befallen him:
a day without his lover. But he has not gone crazy, because he
can still compare his sense of time with the "real," external
time. | Quote #2 Tears drown'd one hundred (line 5) Although the
poem is technically about love, the speaker's ego is always at
the center. He is a larger-than-life figure whose tears can
"drown" a century. What he means, of course, is that he has
spent an entire century crying. Also, reality gets more and more
bent out of shape throughout the poem, as time expands. | Quote
#3 Or not divide (line 7) Our best guess is that "or not divide"
means, "nor could I divide." Division is a pun because it is
both a spiritual activity (division of the self) and a
mathematical procedure, a kind of "computation".