Anna Quinn
Anna Quinn - meaning Summary
Longing for Attainable Love
The speaker addresses God in a brief cry of longing, lamenting that love and life remain perpetually out of reach. He describes perception as distant and mediated, like watching beauty pass as in a glass
, comparing it to the elusive figure Anna Quinn and sunlight on grass. The poem captures frustrated desire and the sense that vivid life is visible but unattainable to the speaker.
O God above, Must I forever be a dream of love? Must I forever see as in a glass The loveliness of life before me pass, Like Anna Quinn or sunlight on the grass?
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