Poetry Explication

Question

I need to write an explication for this poem and I am not sure what the poet is alluding to. Any ideas on what he may be referring to?Is it love, nature or something else

 

Strange! 

I’d have you known! It puzzles me forever
To hear, day in, day out, the words men use,
But never a single word about you, never.
Strange!—in your every gesture, worlds of news.
On busses people talk. On curbs I hear them;
In parks I listen, barbershop and bar.
In banks they murmur, and I sidle near them;
But none allude to you there. None so far.

I read books too, and turn the pages, spying:
You must be there, one beautiful as you!
But never, not by name. No planes are flying
Your name in lacy trailers past the blue
Marquees of heaven. No trumpets cry your fame.

Strange!—how no constellations spell your name!

Answer 1

Are you asking what other work the poet is invoking, or just what he's talking about generally? If the former, it's making me think of Shakespeare's sonnet 130. If the latter, it looks to me like he's talking to a person rather than an idea.