To Spring
O THOU with dewy locks, who lookest down
Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, o spring!
The hills tell each other, and the list'ning
Vallies hear; all our longing eyes are turned
Up to thy bright pavilions; issue forth,
And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
Analysis
of the poem:
This poem " To Spring" is written by William
Blake. In this poem he tries to describe the natural beauty of the season
spring and a spirit personified or allegorized. Nevertheless, this spirit as it approaches the 'western isle' takes on certain distinctly terrestrial hues.
Spring, an oriental bridegroom, lives behind the ' clear windows of the morning
and is invited to issue from ' bright pavilions', doubtless the sky at dawn.
He has ' perfumed garments' which when kissed when kissed by the winds will smell
much like the flower and leaves of the season. At the same time, his own morn
and evening breaths are most convincing in their likeness to morning and
evening breezes. The pearls scattered by the hand of the spring are, we must
suppose, no other flowers and buds which literally appear in the landscape at
this season. The function as landscape details and simultaneously as properties
of the bride groom and - we note here a further complication- as properties of
the land taken as lovesick maiden. We have in fact a double personification
conjured from one nature and one landscape.
But in this poem we look at only simple
meaning and not literal so we find many problems. For example,
1.
In the first stanza poet uses ' the clear
windows of the morning', but here is a controversy because morning has no
windows.
2.
In the second stanza
poet uses ' the hills tell each other, and the vallies hear', but we all know
that hills are not human being so conversation not happens.
3.
In the third stanza
poet uses ' let us, taste thy morn and evening breath'. In this line we can say
that morning and evening have no taste.
In
this poem , I think only personifications used but not central metaphors.
William Blake used natural object and symbols like hills, evening and morning.
And also he tries to describe an effect implicit in the very philosophy of a
world spirit. So we may conclude that he in this poem nature is at the center.
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