After Sensations
After Sensations - fact Summary
About the Muse Doris
The poem links natural renewal—vines blowing and roses glowing—to the speaker's shifting feelings of melancholy and yearning. Tears and a quiet, inarticulate longing pervade him, yet he ultimately recognizes the cause: the memory or presence of a woman named Doris. The revelation reframes his sorrow as bittersweet gratitude, tying personal emotion to a particular beloved figure who appears as the source of both torment and blessing.
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