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How does the poet explore the theme of loss throughout the poem?

Emily Brontë effectively evokes her feelings and thoughts towards loss in a very dark and depressive way throughout the poem.Although she cannot physically be with the one she loves, they can still unite if she takes her life away, positioning in a very desperate and with no solution situation, since she cannot move on with herlife without her lover. We strongly sense the theme of loss in the poem, but also a sort of selfishness since her remembrance of the dead lover is ripping her life out of her own bare hands.
Brontëdirectly plunges the readers into the poem by making the main theme appear in the title. ‘Cold In The Earth’ already suggests a feeling of loss and a representation of death, evoking a feeling ofdistance as if being buried under the ground. The poet tries to make the readers realise about the shift that has occurred in her life, how the gentle summer breeze she used to feel when she spent timewith her lover has been replaced by ‘the deep snow piled above thee’. We sense the harshness of the shivers in winter, how such cold can be able to numb your feelings and pile up until you can’t reachout and get out of it, creating pathos, since we can feel her desperation and her emphasis on the passing of time, and how it does not heal everything. ‘Severed at last by time’s all wearing wave?’,Brontë creates an image in the readers heads of a wave, eroding and wearing out the coast, thinking that time will do the same with her own situation, wear it away, but the remembrance of her loved oneand the pain keeps refreshing and coming back, just like a wave.
Brontë is not able to forget him, we know that his lover had already found the guiding light at the end of the tunnel when he died,but she has been in left in the darkness. The poet represents this person as something holy and glorious, as if it was a gift from heaven, we see this when the lover is represented by Emily Brontë as...