Unto Thee I
Unto Thee I - meaning Summary
Devotion Expressed Through Scent
This poem addresses a beloved through the ritual of burning incense. The speaker uses rich, sensuous imagery of fragrance, smoke, and flowering to convey devotion that is both erotic and spiritual. Incense becomes a medium linking bodily desire and solemn reverence, with feelings shifting between ecstasy and delicate sorrow. The intimate second-person address and the final naming of olbanum make the offering specific and reverent.
Read Complete Analysesunto thee i burn incense the bowl crackles upon the gloom arise purple pencils fluent spires of fragrance the bowl seethes a flutter of stars a turbulence of forms delightful with indefinable flowering, the air is deep with desirable flowers i think thou lovest incense for in the ambiguous faint aspirings the indolent frail ascensions, of thy smile rises the immaculate sorrow of thy low hair flutter the level litanies unto thee i burn incense,over the dim smoke straining my lips are vague with ecstasy my palpitating breasts inhale the slow supple flower of thy beauty,my heart discovers thee unto whom i burn olbanum
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