Paudeen
Paudeen - meaning Summary
Solace in Natural Music
The speaker begins irritated by an awkward, resentful old man (“paudeen”) but then wanders into the morning landscape. Hearing a curlew call and its echo prompts a sudden insight: on a higher, God-seen height even apparent confusion yields a single, clear voice. The poem moves from petty human annoyance to a consoling vision that every soul, however flawed, has its own pure, crystalline cry in the divine order.
Read Complete AnalysesIndignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light; Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye, There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot, A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.
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