God
God - meaning Summary
Lonely Divinity Versus Love
The speaker presents themselves as God, exalted and isolated, observing young lovers below yet unable to descend. The poem contrasts divine purity and eternal solitude with human intimacy and the transient pleasures of spring. By preferring human life and love to godhood, the speaker values relational connection over aloof authority. The final resolution affirms that being mortal and loved is preferable to being omnipotent but alone.
Read Complete AnalysesI am God — Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers Tread the sweet ground — But I am God — I cannot come down. Spring! Life is love! Love is life only! Better to be human Than God — and lonely.
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