No more with overflowing light
Shall fill the eyes that now are faded,
Nor shall another’s fringe with night
Their woman-hidden world as they did.
No more shall quiver down the days
The flowing wonder of her ways,
Whereof no language may requite
The shifting and the many-shaded.
The grace, divine, definitive,
Clings only as a faint forestalling;
The laugh that love could not forgive
Is hushed, and answers to no calling;
The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.
The beauty, shattered by the laws
That have creation in their keeping,
No longer trembles at applause,
Or over children that are sleeping;
And we who delve in beauty’s lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
PLZZZZZ EXPLAIN THIS POEM TO ME!!!
2006-12-19 09:26:36 · 7 answers · asked by honney bunny 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The woman has died and her husband, or someone who held her dear, is lamenting and remembering her as she was (and her many qualities). He is realizing that all he held dear about her is so fragile and superficial when death comes calling. Nothing can stop it and he only has memories now.
2006-12-19 09:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by Goyo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to be talking about death.
'The beauty shattered by the law, that creation have in their keeping.'...we must die.
'The shifting and the many-shaded. The grace, divine, definitive. Clings only as a faint forestalling.'
This to me, seems to be talking about how all of her attributes are now nothing more than lingering memories.
2006-12-19 17:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry i couldnt even make it past the tenth line.... I would have to say that the poem is about a woman who is hidden/cast into the shadows by someone or maybe she's dead... i really don't know sorry!
2006-12-19 17:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by camm300 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an ending or a closure who is the poem by? beauty fading and emotion that is gone.
2006-12-19 19:16:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's about how beauty fades as time passes like how it reaping away age and stuff like that
2006-12-19 17:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by ellizi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me to be a lament for a beautiful wife and mother who has died too soon.
2006-12-19 17:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by Bruce H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
......uh.......?
2006-12-19 17:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by Lynne 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋