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Question by silverclaw_firefly: Can you give an interpretation of the Edgar Allen Poe poem “Dreams” (a copy of the poem is here in ‘details’)?
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awak’ning till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho’ that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
‘T were better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,
A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.
But should it be – that dream eternally
Continuing – as dreams have been to me
In my young boyhood – should it thus be giv’n,
‘T were folly still to hope for higher Heav’n.
For I have revell’d, when the sun was bright
I’ the summer sky, in dreams of living light
And loveliness, – have left my very heart
In climes of mine imagining, apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought – what more could I have seen?
‘T was once – and only once – and the wild hour
From my remembrance shall not pass – some pow’r
Or spell had bound me – ‘t was the chilly wind
Cam o’er me in the night, and left behind
Its image on
Best answer:
Answer by seattle7
There can be many interpretations of this.
My own interpretation is a longing for unrealised dreams of a good and true world, such as the one we dream of as a child. A longing for that innocence before wisdom of age shatters that innocence and it’s dreams. It is also a poem of longing and lost hope for what one has once dreamed. Desires unrealised. He has deep passions in life and yet life has disappointed him. His passions however consume him still. He can also be imagined to be resigned perhaps to the darkness which has shut out the light of his hopes and dreams, describing the dark as a physical presence enveloping him, branding him so to speak.
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Robert Burns 1759 – 1796 reading his much loved poem A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose or Red, Red Rose and is often published as a poem. Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on Jan. 25, 1759, in the cottage of hard-working farmer parents Long considered the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns is the author of “Auld Lang Syne,” “To A Mouse” and “Tam o’ Shanter.” Raised in a poor family of farmers, Burns was nonetheless educated in literature and began writing verse when he was a teenager. His father died in 1784 and Burns tried to make a go of it as a farmer, but found more success with poetry. To raise money to emigrate to Jamaica, he published a collection called Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in Kilmarnock in 1786. The collection sold well and boosted his reputation among the literati, so Burns decided to stay in Scotland. He toured the country, published another edition in Edinburgh (1787) and joined James Johnson in publishing The Scots Musical Museum, a collection of Scottish folk songs. Burns is credited with collecting, revising and adapting hundreds of traditional songs, and his original poems brought international attention to Scottish language and culture. Although Burns became a well-known poet and a favorite native son, he still had to work for a living. He settled in Dumfries, where he worked as an …
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Some cool palmistry images:
a poem plotted on a spiral
Image by robotson
the spiral itself measures 24×24 inches.
Maggie Wong, fortune teller
Image by Binder Of Daemons
Palmistry? Background are private guest lockers for smokables.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon in death. 1819
Question by bloody atiqah: what is the tone of this poem? and how the language effect the tone? im so confuseddd!!!?
William Butler Yeats
“Leda and the Swan”
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop
Best answer:
Answer by Ivy
I remember this poem!
It’s about the rape of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan. The tone of the poem is obviously erotic/sexual, and violent/dark. The language such as “breast, caressed, loins, loosening thighs” make the tone erotic, while “dark webs, dead, brute blood”, make the tone violent and dark at the same time.
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Question by MELLOW LOVER: Please checkout my new poem I wrote about zodiac sign “Virgo”?
Shy, reserved, I love to be neat,
Sensitive I am, and I have a perfect memory.
For I am the “Analyzer” I love details,
I could stick to any budget but I hate to fail.
If you ask me my opinion I’ll give you the facts,
I attract many admirers, and I easily adapt to any situation.
For perfection is my middle name no doubt about it,
Though I could mingle with a crowd I’d prefer to be more one on one in an intimate setting. A mutable sign I do like to share,
Very alert to my surroundings, and devoted to the ones I care for.
Smooth, and laidback as the sound of the ocean’s shore, Pure the symbol “The Virgin” Virgo.
Best answer:
Answer by KilahKalamity(:
thatss beautifulll!(:
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