Let Me Not Mar That Perfect Dream
Let Me Not Mar That Perfect Dream - meaning Summary
Preserve the Perfect Dream
The speaker asks not to spoil a beautiful, transcendent experience and instead to live so that it may recur. The poem contrasts deliberate knowing with sudden, unanticipated visitation: spiritual power arrives as surprise, not by human scheduling. The image of a timid mother wearing a "garment of surprise" suggests innocence and domestic intimacy as the setting for divine or ecstatic moments. The tone is wary, humble, and hopeful.
Read Complete AnalysesLet me not mar that perfect Dream By an Auroral stain But so adjust my daily Night That it will come again. Not when we know, the Power accosts – The Garment of Surprise Was all our timid Mother wore At Home – in Paradise.
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