Analysis Of Hayden's Tattooed Man

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the one that repels him.

But you but you, for whom I would endure caustic acids, keenest knives -- you look at me with pain, avert your face...

The poem describes that the man is tattooed in many parts of his body. For his desperate feeling of love, he endured the painful process of having a tattoo of the woman's face. However, perhaps because of unrequited love from the woman for whom he would do anything, and who perhaps had went away, the man was asking her the question "why". A reader's point of view may find that the man has a deep feeling of love for the woman. The images and the dialogues used in the poem can make a reader imagine that the tattooed man was crying inside because of this feeling.

Love me...

But you but you, for whom I would endure...

I yearn I yearn.

These are all declarations of how much the man feels and longs for the woman.

Passionate. Undergoing a change makes the man fear that the woman would also change.

And if I dared ...

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