An Eastern Ballad
An Eastern Ballad - meaning Summary
Love and Sudden Awakening
The poem reflects on love as a quiet, inscrutable presence—likened to a blind yet faithful moon—that exerts a gentle, numbing care. The speaker contrasts this distant constancy with personal transformation: a deep, extended sleep gives way to sudden awareness. Awakening reveals the world as darker, wilder, and unfamiliar, and the speaker finds themselves reborn into a childlike perspective confronting intensified external turmoil and emotional disorientation.
Read Complete AnalysesI speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
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