Serenade-by Edgar Allan Poe-
So sweet the hour, so calm the time, I feel it more than half a crime, When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, To mar the silence ev'n with lute. At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes An image of Elysium lies: Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven, Form in the deep another seven: Endymion nodding from above Sees in the sea a second love. Within the valleys dim and brown, And on the spectral mountain's crown, The wearied light is dying down, And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky Are redolent of sleep, as I Am But list, O list,- so soft and low Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow, That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem My words the music of a dream. Thus, while no single sound too rude Upon thy slumber shall intrude,Our thoughts, our souls- O God above! In every deed shall mingle, love.........................
can yall tell me what this poem means?
2007-02-03 10:03:58 · 6 answers · asked by Ash 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
his dog died, and he was sad so he wrote a poem.
2007-02-03 10:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Apache Rose Peacock 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
although i dont have any background on phds in poetry i feel this poem isnt about death at all. in fact i find it calm. i believe it is about a moment in time, when everything in the world pauses or seems to pause since it makes no difference even it didnt. as if you had just experience your enlightenment and even for a moment it feels like all the time in the world because you are truly happy. he talks of the stars and i guess it would resemble the universe and how you have found your place in it perhaps? and the light is dying down.....I am but list.....thy lover's voice.....this all seems to me like the moment had faded and the day is ending or the moment is ending but you go on and your lovers voice carrys on and thats all that matters. then he concludes it with the mention of music thoughts and soul and i believe hes saying your enlightenment contains factors of all these things because they all intertwine and you and your loved one will be together in the world as one soul and everything you do now will eventually lead to love because thats what makes the world go round. i think is one of poe's nicer poems he must have been with his 14 year old cousin/wife at the time.
2007-02-03 16:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by xsummermagikx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First verse - be calm and honest. Accept that although you are right, it doesn't have to mean the other person is wrong. Don't show off, and don't "give way to" hate. Second verse - Be an optimistic realist. Believe that anything is possible, but not everything is probable. As to thinking - if you have an idea, follow through with it. And never give up! Third verse - oh, right, only the first two? =O
2016-03-29 03:29:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this poem is essentally about death.
"The wearied light is dying down, And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky Are redolent of sleep"
this refers to how in the end, every thing and every one must "sleep" and the word sleep is in refrence to death. he is alluding that this is part of nature's cycle and that death is sad but peaceful. and he acknowleges the existence of an after life in the words:
"That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem My words the music of a dream. Thus, while no single sound too rude Upon thy slumber shall intrude,Our thoughts, our souls- O God above! In every deed shall mingle, love......................... "
thy soul shall deem my words the music of a dream
upon thy slumber shall intrude
thoughts, our souls- O God above!
2007-02-03 10:22:38 · answer #4 · answered by .:life:. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As I have not a degree in Poe, this does read like a poem of unbalanced love.
2007-02-03 10:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by Hacksaw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has a meaning of when Jesus was born, that is Beautiful.
2007-02-04 02:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by snowflake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋