I’m Saying Every Day
poem 373
I’m Saying Every Day - meaning Summary
Playing at Imagined Royalty
The speaker playfully imagines herself as royalty, rehearsing the posture, dress, and speech she would wear if crowned tomorrow. She adorns herself with simple, nature-based ornaments and practices elevated accents, aware that rustic observers might still mistake or overlook her. The poem balances whimsical ambition with irony and humility, suggesting a preference for readiness and performance over actual transformation or public recognition.
Read Complete AnalysesI’m saying every day If I should be a Queen, tomorrow I’d do this way And so I deck, a little, If it be, I wake a Bourbon, None on me, bend supercilious With This was she Begged in the Market place Yesterday. Court is a stately place I’ve heard men say So I loop my apron, against the Majesty With bright Pins of Buttercup That not too plain Rank overtake me And perch my Tongue On Twigs of singing rather high But this, might be my brief Term To qualify Put from my simple speech all plain word Take other accents, as such I heard Though but for the Cricket just, And but for the Bee Not in all the Meadow One accost me Better to be ready Than did next morn Meet me in Aragon My old Gown on And the surprised Air Rustics wear Summoned&mdas h;unexpectedly To Exeter
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