Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Can someone help me to analyse this poem please!!!?

-Poem to my death-



To die with my very self, abandoned and alone,

On the densest rock of a deserted island.

At that moment, a final yearning for carnations,

On the landscape, a tragic horizon of stone,

My eyes filled with graves of stars,

My passion spread out, exhausted, dispersed,

My fingers like children watching a cloud fade,

My reason mobbed with enormous sheets,

My pale affections returning to silence

-Even love, consumed brother in my path!-

My name untangling, yellow in the branches,

And my hands, twitching to give me to the grass.

To rise to the final, the whole minute,

And to offer myself to the fields,

Then to bend the leaf of my ordinary flesh

And I, giving myself, giving myself fiercely and boldly

To the elements: in solitude breaking my chains!

Who will detain me with useless dreams

When my soul begins to fulfill its task

Making of my sleep rich dough

For the frail worm that knocks at my door?



I need this poem analysed. too difficult for me

Can someone help me to analyse this poem please!!!?
the way that i see it is the person feels as though they are going to die alone, with no one around them to make them feel loved. they then see themselves decomposing, imagining where each body part is going to go after he or she passes. his/her eyes are going to be the stars, his/her passion is spread to everyone, his/her fingers move the clouds like a child pretends to do as the wind blows them above, his/her name will be written in the trees, the rest of the body will be given to mother earth and her skin will become the leaves and blades of grass above. the rest of her body will be there for the worms to eat after mother earth has taken what she needs from this soul. the way that the words are it almost sounds like a woman wrote this poem, but read it slowly and use your imagination and see of you can see the beautiful picture that this poem draws.
Reply:your welcome. i'm glad that i was able to help you! Report It
Reply:He is so sick of himself that he is going to die.
Reply:I think he had realized too late that he has not lived life to its fullest.



I find the imagery rather dense and not connecting to anything I understand fully
Reply:i belive he is dying of something he saw that hurts him or something that will happen..."he sees a tragic horizon of stones"...then he aks for death in that place wr he is "carnations,rich dough, frail worm"...he is getting sad and angry something is out of his control"Mike fingers watch a cloud fade" "my reason mobbbed" he wants to hold on to something he tries to hold"to the grass " wants to throw himself and let go what he feels but he is alone so he feels like he is dying now that he is hurting ..why fill him with hope of happiness when his soul is hurt and almost dead why is that thing that made him unhappy trying to come back to make it better when he is almost dead.


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