Perhaps I Asked Too Large
Perhaps I Asked Too Large - meaning Summary
Ambition Versus Sufficiency
The poem presents a speaker who recognizes an appetite for the immense and admits it may be excessive. Using images of skies, Earths like berries, and a basket that holds firmaments, the speaker contrasts a capacity for wide, cosmic desires with the clutter and limits of smaller, ordinary things. It conveys tension between expansive longing and practical constraint, suggesting self-awareness about wanting more than small life offers.
Read Complete AnalysesPerhaps I asked too large I take no less than skies For Earths, grow thick as Berries, in my native town My Basked holds just Firmaments Those dangle easy on my arm, But smaller bundles Cram.
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