Genius
Genius - meaning Summary
Art Born of Many Lives
The poem presents genius not as an isolated gift but as the product of many generations. It argues that collective love, suffering, dreams and sacrifices converge to produce a rare, beautiful creation. Men’s victories and women’s patient endurance are credited as unseen contributions that survive in the work. A single great soul is portrayed as the conduit through which this accumulated richness emerges into the world.
Read Complete AnalysesA hundred generations have gone into its making, With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears; Their vanished joy and pleasure, their pain and their heart-breaking, Have colored this rare blossom of the long-unfruitful years. Their victory and their laughter for this have strong men given, For this have sweet, dead women paid in patience which survives That a great soul might bring the world, as from the gate of heaven, All that was rich and beautiful in those forgotten lives.
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