“I’m attracted to you without knowing why.”
As Fanny and John get to know each other more, their interest for each other grows. Fanny openly displays her flirtations, while John is more reserved. He reveals to her that he doesn’t understand women and that he doesn’t understand his feelings for her. As a poet he is bound to contemplate, and Fanny starts being a source of his poetic inspiration.
“When I don’t hear from him, it’s as if I died…”
After John is forced to leave the estate, Fanny is restless from his absence. She is desperate to receive letters from him, and when she doesn’t, she falls into depression. She questions love and the pain that comes with it. Fanny is very open when it comes to showing her emotions and expressing her thought, so the movie shows how her surroundings are affected by her sadness as well.
“Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept a mystery.”
John starts giving poetry lessons to Fanny, and on their first lesson he explains it to her by comparing it to a dive into the lake, telling her that it is felt through the senses, without the thought and analysis of the lake or what happens after the dive.
