Cloak of shadows
And seasons of thunder
Black is the color of my true love
In the dark of the moon
Under cover of night
On a dark and winding road
Beyond wine-dark seas
Past the darkling plain
Further than the heart of darkness
In Stygian darkness
Half in love with easeful death
Is this a dagger I see before me
Hark who goes there
Because of his sound and fury
Because of his darkness
My own light grows dim
2006-09-29 09:08:25 · 21 answers · asked by -_boss_- 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i thnk the poets trying to tell you about there fear
2006-09-29 09:09:47 · answer #1 · answered by :)☮♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it likely that this is not a poem but rather a conglomeration of lines from various different poems which share the common themes of darkness and death. Either someone is playing a trick on you or you on us. This could also be something a thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboards might come up with in a thousand years or so. Still not a poem no matter how you slice it. My suggestion to you assuming your question is serious: if you're looking for meaning in this mishmash, don't, it's not really there.
2006-09-29 17:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, as it is hard to say what a poet was thinking and unaware they meant at the time, but.... It seems kind of sad, depressed, but hopeful at the same time. Sounds like he misses someone he loved who has died?
I hesitate to say he might also secretly wonder if he could join her.
It's been a while since I analyzed any poetry symbols or discussed poetry with anyone else who had feedback for it.
Very expressive poem.
2006-09-29 16:14:19 · answer #3 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a pastiche - a musical, literary, or artistic composition made up of selections from different works: Shakespeare, Homer, Keats, Hardy, Conrad. Those are the authors I recognize, but I'm sure there are more.
What's it trying to tell me? That readers can get all sorts of meanings out of an arbitrary hodgepodge of plagiarized lines, perhaps?
2006-09-29 17:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it reflects a person's feelings about being so in love with someone that they can't have or doesn't want them, or have lost the one they love. Because Love is supposed to be such a beautiful when it is darkened it signifies a great loss and the last part feflect how the person feels in their self....empty and dark without that one person.
2006-09-29 16:14:01 · answer #5 · answered by andrea p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This poem means the dark of life and love. The empty for the existence
2006-09-29 16:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Cristian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Lady Macbeth having second thoughts on egging on her Lord to murder with a bit of Homer thrown in. Who is the poet?
Dizzy.
2006-09-29 16:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Dizzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I am in any way a qualified poetry critic but it would seem to me that the poet is describing either death itself or someone mourning the death of another - possibly both... just a guess really.
2006-09-29 16:28:19 · answer #8 · answered by Greywolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About a schiophrenic with sever split pers. dis. who thinks her lover(herself) is in love with her death. Its a long dark road to the other side. Its eating her soul and is nearing the end.
2006-09-29 16:13:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some dude is out at night with a dagger.
2006-09-30 17:59:59 · answer #10 · answered by belle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He or She has fallen in love again with someone whos died and the author is ready to go into death after this love.
2006-09-29 16:17:13 · answer #11 · answered by maguathehearteater 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋