Guest poem sent in by Aseem
(Poem #1741) To the Moon Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? |
Every time I look through the Minstrels archive, I'm always saddened to see how poorly represented Shelley is on the site (yes, Martin, I know you don't much care for him, but still). All right, so he tends to get a little carried away; yes, he doesn't have quite the ear that Keats does, or Byron; fine, his images tend to pile one upon the other until they become suffocating, almost annoying (What was it Shakespeare said: "give me excess of it, that surfeiting / The appetite may sicken and so die."); true, he could have used a good editor. All of that does not detract from the fact that Shelley is, IMHO, one of the most visionary and passionate of poets to grace the English language, one of its most strident and lyrical voices; a young man capable, at his best, of such burning purity of image that few poets before or since could match him. Certainly a poet who deserves to be better represented on the site than he currently is. This poem is the first step towards achieving that representation. It's a brilliant little gem of a poem, a glorious example of just how stunning Shelley could be when he didn't overdo it. The double image of the moon roaming disconsolate through the night sky and Youth searching restlessly for spiritual beauty is both crystal clear and oddly compelling. To read this poem aloud is to experience the sadness and the despair of the speaker - no mean feat for a poem that is all of six lines long. This is a quintessentially romantic poem: it combines a sense of haunting lyricism with one of the most spectacularly visual closing lines in all of poetry: 'Ever changing like a joyless eye / That finds no object worth its constancy'. (The failure of the last line to rhyme only heightens the overall impact of the stanza in my view - it sharpens the ending, makes it, somehow, more fragile). It's always seemed to me that Shelley, with his restless, tormented, uneven poems, with his visions of political and lyrical grandeur combined with periods of dark depression, is truly a poet of a 'different birth'. The least we can do is make sure he has all his best poems with him, to keep him company. Aseem [Martin adds] While it is true that I dislike the majority of Shelley's work, I have never denied his essential genius, and I have ever urged readers who *are* fans of his poetry to fill up the lacuna. I heartily agree that he deserves to be better represented in the archives, but my primary criterion for selecting a poem has always been my enjoyment of said poem; therefore, I leave the Shelley poems to people like Aseem, who has done a far better job of writing about him than I could have. (I believe that I speak for Thomas too in this regard.) martin
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"And ever-changing, like a joyless eye"
Shelley always was good at choosing his metaphors!
Very good, but kinda depressing.
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