Zhu ENG 205 Entries

"Deaf heaven" and "bootless cries" suggests the overall hopelessness of his situation, furthermore he curses his fate. He wishes that he could someone with more hope, wishes that he could have the friends that this "man" has.

If the reverse were true, if his lover has no plans of abandoning him, "my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms/ without leaving mine." As long as the love exists, the fire will continue burning, for both parties.

To think of another, another far worm, and his ownership of the skies.

He writes his visions for the Second Coming "A shape with lion body and the head of a man," the author describes the Second coming as a mythical creature rather than the Second Coming of Christ that most readers would be expecting. With the approaching beast, the author wonders what creature that could be, to be destruction to the world that has collectively sinned.

"a lone winter evening, when the frost/ Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills/The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever," even in the winter, the "poetry of earth" does not stop. The last two lines of the poem seem to be contrasting the cold drowsy winter cricket to the grasshopper "among some grassy hills." The author is saying that poetry of earth continues through the cycle of seasons, never ceasing.

The meter is best described as a loose iambic tetrameter, a poem containing four iambic feet, however, in almost every line an iamb is replaced with an anapest in different locations . The seemingly random anapest placements is what allows the poem to have a  more natural and conversational feel .