The Grave Of Shelley Analysis

Author: Poetry of Oscar Wilde Type: Poetry Views: 373

LIKE burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;
Here doth the little night-owl make her throne,
And the slight lizard show his jewelled head.
And, where the chaliced poppies flame to red,
In the still chamber of yon pyramid
Surely some Old-World Sphinx lurks darkly hid,
Grim warder of this pleasaunce of the dead.

Ah! sweet indeed to rest within the womb
Of Earth, great mother of eternal sleep,10
But sweeter far for thee a restless tomb
In the blue cavern of an echoing deep,
Or where the tall ships founder in the gloom
Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep.

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i read something about another poet named percy bysshe shelley who died before oscar wilde really 'made it'. i think this poem might have been related to him and maybe oscar wilde looked up to him or something. Its possible that he might have visited his grave and was thus inspired to write this poem about it. At one point Shelley sailed to Leghorn to meet a friend of his and during the stormy voyage the ship sank and he drowned. I think that the lines 'in the blue cavern of an echoing deep, or where the tall ships founder in the glook against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep' alludes to the death of Shelley.

| Posted on 2006-03-20 | by Approved Guest

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