Admiring From AfarBy Vidhi T. Poem About Admiring Someone From Afar Stories2 Shares3813 Favorited42 Votes842 Rating Were you touched by this poem? Share Your Story Here. All stories are moderated before being published. Check Your Spellingor your story will not be published!
It is a beautiful love poem based on a gentleman wooing his mistress, hoping to convince her to sleep with him. The unnamed mistress refuses, and his response is to tell her that if he had enough time, he could spend entire centuries admiring her beauty and innocence. But he doesn’t....
as male. This was the 19th century, when the assumed pronoun for a poet washim. It’s no stretch at all to read the Him in this poem as Emily Dickinson, as Emily referring toherself. No mysterious “Master” or male lover need be invoked. She was, with a touch ...
This in turn reveals the stirring selflessness of their desire, another admiring aspect of the message the poet is trying to articulate. I also appreciate her connection between helping these people and the larger peace this will foster in the long run, an idea that advocates for unity ...
The /l/ connects his "love" to his "loosen[ing]," for instance—suggesting that, for the speaker, part of love is a feeling that he can let go of his own separate personality and inhabit other people's experiences, not just admiring but becoming that "little child." (Note that we'...
Admiring the courage of Shaw and his men, the speaker is driven to reflect that their spirit of heroic self-sacrifice is in short supply in a modern United States riven by segregation, commercialism, and insincerity, "slid[ing] by on grease." Read the full text of “For the Union Dead...
how someone spoke, or what their intentions were. For example, someone might say that their partner “went totally insane” during a fight when in reality, they were understandably upset about something that occurred in the relationship. This is a good example of how one might use exaggerations...
That movement of rhymes works right alongside the speaker's energies as he turns from melancholy thoughts of death to the powerful, shadowy energy of the great Greek statues he's admiring. “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” Speaker The speaker of this poem is almost certainly John Keats himself....
His father, however, was devoted to his son enough to take on the extra weight of the boy riding on his back as he plowed the land. This reveals a devoted father and an admiring son, different as they may be. In this stanza, the first and third end words make aslant rhyme, “wake...