Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe
poem 896
Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe - meaning Summary
Fickle Devotion as Betrayal
The poem likens a flattering admirer to a treacherous bee: outwardly attentive and graceful, but insincere and transient. The speaker emphasizes that the bee’s service and courtship are chance-based, ephemeral, and ultimately disloyal—its promise limited by circumstance and season. What seems continual is actually a repeated pattern of banishment and separation, suggesting a broader warning about seductive appearances that conceal fleeting commitment and inevitable abandonment.
Read Complete AnalysesOf Silken Speech and Specious Shoe A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually His Suit a chance His Troth a Term Protracted as the Breeze Continual Ban propoundeth He Continual Divorce.
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