Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow Tarnished but so grand”

A reader maps the song closely onto Lady Chatterley's Lover: the husband as the living presence the narrator nonetheless grieves, the lover whose distant, freezing reserve gives way to consuming warmth, and an ending left unresolved by a marriage that will not let her go. The parallel frames the affair as a choice between a deadened respectable life and a vital, dangerous one.