Her Triumph
Her Triumph - meaning Summary
Transformation Through a Beloved
The speaker describes a personal transformation after encountering a decisive beloved. Once devoted to daring, transient pleasures framed as the dragon 27s will, he treated love as a game. The beloved interrupts that pattern, acting as a liberator likened to Saint George or Perseus who breaks chains and frees him. The poem ends with the pair facing the sea and a strange bird 27s cry, signalling wonder and a new, unsettled future.
Read Complete AnalysesI did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game That followed if I let the kerchief fall: Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings And heavenly music if they gave it wit; And then you stood among the dragon-rings. I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it And broke the chain and set my ankles free, Saint George or else a pagan Perseus; And now we stare astonished at the sea, And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.
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