How does the speaker in the poem "The Taxi" feel about leaving the person he or she loves?

If you read the poem carefully you can see a number of
different images that the poet uses to describe how the speaker in this poem feels. Just
consider the first three
lines:

When I go away from
you

Whe world beats dead

Like
a slackened drum.

Note how
this simile creates an incredibly powerful image, depicting how bereft the speaker is in
her life when she leaves her beloved. The world is compared to a "slackened" drum which
is beating "dead", which of course uses onomatopoeia in "beat" to enact the sound that
the image creates. Note how the poem continues:

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I call out for you against the jutted
stars

And shout into the ridges of the
wind.

Two implied metaphors
are used here to further paint a picture of the bleak landscape which the speaker
inhabits without her lover - the stars are made out to be high, jutted mountains that
hem her in and the wind likewise has "ridges", equally creating an image of the speaker
feeling imprisoned and caged by nature. Life without her love is certainly very
difficult for her.