Which shed light on us in dim silver showers, I see ten thousand of those radiant flowers Through which its beams rain down inconstantly I see yon brilliant star and waving tree, I see thee not: the touch of they soft hand,Īnd thy deep sighs, fraught with emotion bland, Quench it again, and the bright orbs are hid. Till the long lashes and the downcast lid That does divide us thy bright eyes alone I see yon brilliant star and waving tree,”Īmbrosial night, with her mysterious spell,ĭrawing impervious veils athwart the space How does they frame the story told in the poem? What can be said about the woman named Isabel? Notice how the protagonist takes on a male perspective: “That on that couch my Isabel reclines. Pay attention to the vivid descriptions of light, the Stars and the Night. The poem is quite lenghty and has a number of themes common to any writer of the Romantic period. This poem “A Night Scene” is about a woman called Isabel. Mary Shelley died of a brain tumour at the age of 53 in London. After her husband’s death Mary focused on their young son and her writing. Mary got pregnant before they married which gave the pair social difficulties. They met in 1814 and Mary’s father never accepted their marriage. She married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and they travelled a lot and lived a somewhat unconventional life together until he drowned in Switzerland. She wrote novels, drama, poetry and about her travels. As a young girl Mary Shelley started to write short stories and maintained a lifelong interest in writing. Her parents were liberals and her father gave her a good education even if it was informal. She never knew her mother who died shortly after giving birth to Mary. Shelley was the daughter of political philosopher William Godwin (1756-1836) and her mother the was well-known writer and “early feminist” Mary Wollonstonecraft (1759-1797). Pay some attention to the final lines as the narrator places herself in a wish to be the muezzin.Įveryone knows Mary Shelley (1797-1851) as the writer of well-known Gothic novel Frankenstein – The Modern Prometheus (1818), but she wrote poetry as well. The major theme touches upon a religious one since the muezzin in a traditional context is the male voice who call the people to prayer. These sweet lines comes from the book Poems from West and East and is entitled “The Muezzin”. She spent many months in Persia and in Teheran where her husband, Harold Nicolson worked between 1925-1927. She was also a married upper-class brit and her husband was a diplomat which means she got to travel a lot. She was the writer of Orlando and the keeper of gardens. Famous for her friendships with the Bloomsbury’s artists and Virginia Woolf. Hello everyone! Today’s poem was written by British author Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962).
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