Romeo And Julliet With A Different Ending

I read this poem about 5 times because I think it is hard to understand what is happening and the meaning of it at first. Now, I understand some parts very well and others not so well, and I will be analyzing the parts that I did feel like I understood.

The first 10 lines are talking about a couple that is running away. Elliot writes about leaving at night, which probably means that the couple is doing so clandestinely. A reference to an etherized table, like one a patient is being examines, available for all to see and vulnerable. The last passage that made me think the couple is running away is the fact that they will have to stay in cheap hotels and eat in any restaurant they fid which indicates they have few resources available to the, which is common during an escapade. I imagine this is a cliche, but when I read this I thought of Romeo and Julliet who could not be together and had to run away. Then, until line 50, I am not as clear on what is being said but there is talk of time to make decisions and to chose and to be each other separately, and I think that this might have to do with the fact that the woman is not very sure about running away because she feels it will commit her immediately, and that the speaker is telling her that there will be time and that their individuality will not be lost. Lines 70 to 75 have a different tone than the rest of the poem because where before the tine was persuasive and gentle, here the tone shoes bitterness and sadness at the loneliness the speaker has felt, and his skepticism of life. Until line 110 I think the passage was talking about the fact that everything they had to go thorough would have been worthwhile if only she had not had second thoughts or decided that she did not want to run away any more. The last part of the poem, I think, referred to the fact that he had no will to live anymore, because of this change in their relationship. He then goes to drown, but I don’t think this is meant literally, I think it means that he will drown in sorrow and in desperation.