Dim-witted Pleasure
Dim-witted Pleasure - meaning Summary
Transitory Rural Delight
The poem sketches a brief, rural evening scene in which simple sensory pleasures—sun on a pond, birch reflections, cawing crows, a girl’s song—create a tender but fleeting mood. The speaker names this experience a "dim-witted pleasure," suggesting its innocent, unreflective quality. As light fades and a blue robe of night spreads, the tone shifts to gentle melancholy: pleasure remains, but it is fragile and quickly embedded in the passing moment.
Read Complete AnalysesNow it's here, dim-witted pleasure - See, through white windows beyond! Russet, like swan at her leisure, Shimmers the sun on the pond. Greetings, gilt peaceable moment, Birch's reflection on pool! Flocking crows cackle insistent Starwards their prayer of the fool. Timid from yard sound escaping Cry from the blossoming rose, Girl in white gently is singing Ballad of gentle repose. There a robe blueish is spreading - Chill of the night on the field... Pleasure, sweet, feckless, embedding Freshly in rosy cheeks' yield!
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