Mirage
Christina Rossetti
The hope I dreamed of was a dream,
Was but a dream; and now I wake
Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old,
For a dream’s sake.
I hang my harp upon a tree,
A weeping willow in a lake;
I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt
For a dream’s sake.
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream’s sake.
2007-06-19 06:06:28 · 11 answers · asked by Cocobanner 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Split with her boyfreind.hey I gave all the other answers a thumbs up they sound better than mine but it still could be a split with her beau.
2007-06-19 06:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about two things in a way. She has had hopes of love, and that love(r) has failed or rejected her. So, she awakes from the youthful dream of love to the reality that is, and must learn a new way of understanding hope and love and life, herself too. It is also a rite of passage to be jilted in this way and to come to the revelation of what reality is, rather than what we dreamed it would be. Notably, the harp is the instrument of the angels, and symbolically the weeping willow is a symbol of sadness and depression, water tends to signify emotion. So, she is now a mere mortal, which tallies in with her finding the real world, and her emotional life is centred in sadness as notified by the willow in the lake. Note, though, that this arrival in the real world could herald a dawn of new hope, embodied in more real, co-operate and consensual understandings. So, yes, she should let her heart break for the heart, like Pandora's Box has hope at the bottom of it.
2007-06-19 11:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It soooo sad.
See, she dreams of hope, but it was just a dream. she now is sad and can sing no more (she hangs her harp in a weeping willow). Singing was her joy.
And in the last stanza she tells us why, her heart is broken. It will be silent and die and all of her life and world is gone. And this hope was what had kept her alive, but now she wakes from the dream and realizes she is old, she has no comfort, she is worn (first stanza) and all because she believed a dream it is not true.
Read it again, it is very beautiful.
2007-06-19 06:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by poetrygal 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's about a person who has a dream, perhaps of love but it doesn't have to be, that hasn't worked out. Poems tend to show their theme, their meaning, at the end, and here the person is saying that because their dream hasn't worked out (one could read, because their goal hasn't worked or has become impossible) then her world and her goals have changed. What needs to be done, therefore, is to Lie about it (notice the word is not "Lay still", it's about lying to oneself, and let the goal and the dream disappear, and therefore, for another brief moment, hold on to it, before the world and the speaker's life changes.
2007-06-19 06:16:53 · answer #4 · answered by John B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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a poem is something you will never write, because there are no words right enough that explain our feelings about a kitten, love, etc. We almost can write a poem, but that's as close as it gets. Just like love....what is it?
2016-04-04 07:23:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a metaphor for her struggle thru life, and now that it has come to an end, or is coming to an end, she only now realized how life was likened to a dream----because both life and a dream are temporary state of being
2007-06-19 06:16:47 · answer #6 · answered by Heart of Fire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its about not looking back and regretting...
she held onto hers dreams until they consumed her so that in her final ours she looked back realising that her dreams where nothing more than that. maybe she should have got married had kids and let her legacy last forever now she's just a memory and for the want of a dream.
the real question is ...is chasing your dreams and forsacking all others even loved ones worth it?
2007-06-19 08:46:57 · answer #7 · answered by conan_troutman1975 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what she thought was going to happen does not and it takes a long time to realize it would not materialize which leaves her feeling tired. she gives up on her broken dream and thinks of it no more. her heart is aching and she tries to comfort herself realizing that her life has altered just for a dream. hey lovely poem what is it about?
2007-06-19 06:19:20 · answer #8 · answered by Makosi L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a beautiful poem about a persons hope and dreams
2007-06-22 04:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by magiclady2007 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing - just looks like a load of words to me.
2007-06-19 06:23:58 · answer #10 · answered by LillyB 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋