You can tell this by the way he choses to say “bread I broke with you” instead of just eating (2). The word choice here is very significant, because eating with someone doesn’t really mean you like the person. But the words “[breaking] bread . . . with you” gives off a vibe that they enjoyed the time the had together in fellowship with each other (2). Also the repetition of the “once” lets you know that it is no longer there, but it used to be (4,5,12). The speaker is mourning at the beginning of the poem , which you can tell this by the last sentence in the first stanza where he says “[everything] that was . . . beautiful is dead”(4). The speaker remembers her by “[the] things [she’s touched]” , even though they “do not remember [her]” the memory he has of her using those things will never be forgotten by him(7). After line 8 of the poem there