The wedding dress and other wedding imagery (symbol)
The wedding dress symbolizes the loss of identity that the speaker has suffered. Part of her is bound into the identity of the scorned woman; she never takes off the wedding dress. It ages with her and becomes fused to her.
A man's body (motif)
The man who scammed and rejected the narrator shows up at crucial junctions in this poem, but he is more an outline of himself than he is an actual presence. He hovers over the speaker as a "lost body." By describing him as "lost," the speaker reveals the extent of her pain and longing.
Witchcraft (motif)
There's something witchy about the portrayal of Miss Havisham in this poem. She curses, she performs necromancy on a corpse, her hands and eyes transform and she almost becomes a bird. Yet all of this is undermined by her lack of power; she is unable to pull herself out of the moment of rejection, and she is unable to actually conjure up her ex-fiancé's presence beyond her dreams.
