"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away And s...

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

Answer Details

The passage is saying that when love recedes, you gain clarity and see things more clearly than before, almost like a tide going out and revealing what had been hidden or thrown away. In this case, it reveals the ruin that you have made. Therefore, the answer is that you come to self-knowledge.