Various critics have sought to add poems to the group; among those proposed over the years are "Alcaeus to Sappho", "Among all lovely things", "Lucy Gray", "Surprised by joy", "Tis said, that some have died for love", "Louisa", "Nutting", "Presentiments", "She was a Phantom of delight", "The Danish Boy", "The Two April Mornings", "To a Young Lady", and "Written in Very Early Youth".
"I supposed because Carrington died for love".
Like Ophelia, the implication seems to be, he died for love, betrayed and alone.
Lindy offered a sentimental rephrasing, managing to work a trace of irony into his voice: "He died for love".
Though grounded in theatrical illusion, the puppet Petrouchka, who has "died" for love as a type of Christ, is more real than the Charlatan wants to think.
It is said that Sappho died for love of a younger man, Phaon, a ferry boat captain, that she threw herself off a cliff because of him.
Beth is one of several women in the story "Dying for Love" who don't, in fact, die for love, but hang on to the "handrail" of familiar things, and whose tragedies are relieved by "a saving capacity for digression and recovery".
Everybody knows about this fantastic figure, a lovely figure Francesca who dies for love, but Dante's actually encountering a reader of his own poetry and he witnesses the kind of traps and risk that reading implies.
To die for love is, in literature, a macabre and much-sentimentalized pinnacle of achievement.
