Consider
Consider - meaning Summary
Longing as Cosmic Memory
The poem is a direct address to a woman in which the speaker asks her to consider his body and longing. He uses night and celestial imagery—meteors, stars, carnival of darkness—to convey intense, sensual experience. The speaker predicts that in time the woman will recall the night’s overwhelming ecstasies and rising, terrible-sweet memories, linking physical desire with lasting emotional imprint and future remembrance.
Read Complete Analysesconsider O woman this my body. for it has lain with empty arms upon the giddy hills to dream of you, approve these firm unsated eyes which have beheld night’s speechless carnival the painting of the dark with meteors streaming from playful immortal hands the bursting of the wafted stars (in time to come you shall remember of this night amazing ecstasies slowly, in the glutted heart fleet flowerterrible memories shall rise,slowly return upon the red elected lips scaleless visions)
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