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The tears become the entire world which encompasses the speaker's life and feelings.
So doth each tear,
Which thee doth wear, globe, yea world, by that impression grow, (Lines 14-16)
This comparison also leads to the insistence in the poem that without each other the two lovers in fact cease to exist and that their essential meaning is dependent on their proximity to one another. The speaker states that Till thy tears mix'd with mine do overflow
This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so. (lines 17, 18)
The tears shed by the two lovers at parting become a flood over the globe or world created by those tears; and this flood of sadness and despair causes the speaker to lose his "heaven."
The third stanza compares the lover to the moon; with its connotations of female influence and power over the earth. This can also be interpreted as showing her influence over him. He pleads with his lover:
Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere; (line 20)
The above line refers to the idea that he feels their parting will destroy him entirely. The last lines of the stanza emphasizes the central point that the intensity of leaving one...
(Lines 26, 27)
These lines state clearly that the "sighs" of despair only serve to increase the sense of despair and loss and therefore the speaker asks his lover not to "sigh."
The theme of the above poem is clear from the explication. It is essentially a poem about the pain of parting which emphasizes the intensity of love between the couple. The development of the poem reveals a sense of increasing intensity at the prospect of loss and departure with each stanza. The first stanza, which reveals a reflection of the lover though the conceit of tears, serves to express the depth of felt love. This metaphor mutates and expands into a more negative perception, that without one another the two lovers have no existence and become "nothing." This sense of despair intensifies in the final stanza to a point where the "sighs" of sadness and loss are too much to bear for the speaker. Throughout, the poem develops a consistent logic and argumentative structure so characteristic of metaphysical poetry.
" (Lines 5-7) the metaphor of the poet being like a battered and invaded town that is impinged upon by outsiders yet still strives to let in the saving forces suggests both a medieval castle and the poet's divided alliances between the world (evil) and God (good). The second half of the poem creates further parallels the relationship of the poet to God. The next metaphor, after the castle, suggests that
This speaker is after something slightly more adult than cookies, of course, but this just makes the humor of the rhyme stand out more. His desire to "travel, sojourn, snatch, plot, have, forget" in line six details his desires of infidelity, and the basic lack of any sort of unity in these words -- there does not appear to be more than the accidental alliteration -- also reflects the
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas) The "Poetry Explications" handout from UNC states that a poetry explication is a "relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationship of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem." The speaker in "Fern Hill" dramatically embraces memories from his childhood days at his uncle's farm, when the world was innocent; the second part brings out the speaker's loss of innocence and
Rebellion Against Death "Do not go gentle into that good night" may be considered Dylan Thomas's most recognizable and popular poems. First published in Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem later appeared as part of the collection called "In Country Sleep." Written for Thomas's dying father, the poem explores the theme of death and the resistance thereof. Written as a villanelle in which only two sounds are rhymed, such as night/light
Meanwhile, the deranged viewers walk among the police officers who take notes, wash down the street of it blood, sweep up glass. Another metaphor likens the hanging "lanterns on the wrecks that clings, Empty husks of locust, to iron poles." With locusts, what was once green and lush, becomes brown and barren. Here, what was just minutes ago a living, breathing body, becomes dead and inert. And what is the
Poetry analysis of the works of Sylvia Plath and Robert Hayden about paternal love and affection reflects how fathers have become the symbols of brutal and cruel love for their children, stereotyping and marginalizing them in a society where mothers and women are favored as suitable guardians for their children. In Plath's "Daddy" and Hayden's "Those winter days," readers witness two opposing views of this theme -- where the former