Ballatetta
Ballatetta - meaning Summary
Light as Grace
The poem presents a speaker’s devotional vision of a woman whose light is both grace and presence. Her light inhabits blind and shadowed places, transforming pain into song and claiming authority over the speaker’s heart. Similes and natural imagery—sunlight, gossamer, emerald grasses—emphasize her delicate but sovereign influence. The scene is quiet and reverent: her passing both protects and refines the fragile world she moves through.
Read Complete AnalysesThe light became her grace and dwelt among Blind eyes and shadows that are formed as men; Lo, how the light doth melt us into song: The broken sunlight for a healm she beareth Who hath my heart in jurisdiction. In wild-wood never fawn nor fallow fareth So silent light; no gossamer is spun So delicate as she is, when the sun Drives the clear emeralds from the bended grasses Lest they should parch too swiftly, where she passes.
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