The Gardener 60: Amidst the Rush and Roar of Life
The Gardener 60: Amidst the Rush and Roar of Life - meaning Summary
Beauty Silent Before Time
The poem addresses a stone embodiment of Beauty that remains motionless and silent amid life’s noise. Time is personified and enthralled, pleading with the statue to speak and even calling it a bride, but the statue cannot respond. The scene contrasts enduring, unreachable idealized beauty with the active, desirous flow of time, implying distance, permanence, and the frustration of longing directed at something immutable and uncommunicative.
Read Complete AnalysesAmidst the rush and roar of life, O Beauty, carved in stone, you stand mute and still, alone and aloof. Great Time sits enamoured at your feet and murmurs: "Speak, speak to me, my love; Speak, my bride!" But your speech is shut up in stone, O Immovable Beauty!
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