Let's Majeste
Let's Majeste - meaning Summary
Imagined Sovereignty and Longing
The speaker imagines herself enthroned in a world where real kings are scarce and social roles are inverted. She adopts regal trappings to dazzle observers while aging alongside the passing years, treating time as a companion. The poem ends by questioning romantic conventions: why must the awakening or fulfillment come from a fairy-tale Prince? It juxtaposes self-fashioned sovereignty with longing and skepticism about expected rescues.
Read Complete AnalysesI sit a throne upon the times when Kings are rare and Consorts slide into the grease of scullery maids. So gaily wave a crown of light (astride the royal chair) that blinds the commoners who genuflect and cross their fingers. The years will lie beside me on the queenly bed. And coupled we'll await the ages’ dust to cake my lids again. And when the rousing kiss is given, why must it always be a fairy, and only just a Prince?
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