Notes for Canto 120
Notes for Canto 120 - meaning Summary
Seeking Forgiveness and Paradise
A brief, confessional lyric in which the speaker admits an effort to create "Paradise" but yields control: stillness allows the wind itself to be paradise. The poem shifts to entreaties for forgiveness—asking both gods and loved ones to pardon what the speaker has made. It presents creation as imperfect and dependent on external forces and mercy, coupling humility about artistic striving with a plea for personal absolution.
Read Complete AnalysesI have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.
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