Yours Is the Music for No Instrument
Yours Is the Music for No Instrument - meaning Summary
Unwritten Love as Music
The speaker contrasts an adored other’s innate, instrumentless music and unseen color with the poet’s own withheld or unwritten responses. The poem frames creative silence and private feeling as both negligible to nature and defiant against death: unmade poems become a way to bulge against mortality, silence, and annihilation. Imagery of light, twilight, and bodily trembling suggests desire and the limits of articulation when love or experience exceeds language.
Read Complete Analysesyours is the music for no instrument yours the preposterous colour unbeheld —mine the unbought contemptuous intent till this our felsh merely shall be excelled by speaking flower (if I have made songs it does not greatly matter to the sun, nor will rain care cautiously who prolongs unserious twilight)Shadows have begun the hair’s worm huge,ecstatic,rathe…. yours are the poems i do not write. In this at least we have got a bulge on death, silence,and the keenly musical light of sudden nothing….la bocca mia “he kissed wholly trembling” or so thought the lady.
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