Imitation
Imitation - meaning Summary
Memory and Lost Hope
The poem meditates on the speaker's recollection of early life as a dark, dreamlike tide mixing pride, mystery, and visionary thought. It describes imagined encounters with unseen beings and a youthful hope that once animated the spirit. The tone shifts to resignation: the bright hope has passed, worldly rest is lost, and the speaker wishes to control or let perish the cherished thought that once sustained him. It reads as personal introspection.
Read Complete AnalysesA dark unfathomed tide Of interminable pride – A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem; I say that dream was fraught With a wild and waking thought Of beings that have been, Which my spirit hath not seen, Had I let them pass me by, With a dreaming eye! Let none of earth inherit That vision of my spirit; Those thoughts I would control, As a spell upon his soul: For that bright hope at last And that light time have past, And my worldly rest hath gone With a sigh as it passed on: I care not though it perish With a thought I then did cherish
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