Tis Little I Could Care for Pearls
poem 466
Tis Little I Could Care for Pearls - meaning Summary
Value Beyond Material Wealth
The poem presents a speaker who dismisses conventional riches and honors. She claims indifference to pearls, brooches, gold, and diamonds, using royal imagery to show that external wealth or ornaments do not alter her identity or satisfaction. The recurrence of regal terms—emperor, prince, diadem—frames the rejection as deliberate: status symbols cannot bestow what the speaker already is or needs.
Read Complete Analyses‘Tis little I could care for Pearls Who own the ample sea Or Brooches when the Emperor With Rubies pelteth me Or Gold who am the Prince of Mines Or Diamonds when have I A Diadem to fit a Dom Continual upon me
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