What does love symbolize in the poem, Dead Love?

Love in the poem symbolizes falsehood. For the speaker, love is "seldom true" (2) and is fickle in nature, often changing without warning and leaving one to suffer the consequences. Thus, she deems by the end of the poem that love does not actually exist. For the speaker, love is a fiction made up by others (likely poets, and likely men) that gives people hope only to hurt them.