On Diverse Deviations
On Diverse Deviations - meaning Summary
Love as Anguished Threshold
The poem presents a bleak, unsettled view of love as a shimmering curtain that opens onto an uncertain, macabre world. Vivid physical images—rattling bones, blinded eyes, altered features—suggest alienation, decay, and commodified intimacy. The speaker rejects sentimental safety and asks to be carried to a shore where love is not gentle but a raw "scream of anguish," implying a preference for brutal honesty over deceptive comfort.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen love is a shimmering curtain Before a door of chance That leads to a world in question Wherein the macabrous dance Of bones that rattle in silence Of blinded eyes and rolls Of thick lips thin, denying A thousand powdered moles, Where touch to touch is feel And life a weary whore I would be carried off, not gently To a shore, Where love is the scream of anguish And no curtain drapes the door.
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