Richard BrautiganHinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams.
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The door is a symbol of forgetting (memory door door). It represents the passage of time and the closing of the past, which has been forgotten. It is a metaphor for forgetfulness. It is a door that you can only shut when you are asleep.
The woman in the poem is the woman who was loved, but she closed her mind to him, leaving him in her dreams. She was not present to him while he tried to love her because she was always sleeping.
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