Sounds Like Pearls
Sounds Like Pearls - meaning Summary
Words as Soothing Ornaments
The poem celebrates speech as beautiful and soothing, likening words to "pearls" that roll off a tongue and bring pleasure to an "ebon ear." It presents language as able to transform atmosphere: awkward feelings of doubt and fear blush and disappear. The short piece foregrounds the power of affectionate or admiring address to banish insecurity and to create intimacy between speaker and listener.
Read Complete AnalysesSounds Like pearls Roll off your tongue To grace this eager ebon ear. Doubt and fear, Ungainly things, With blushings Disappear.
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