The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers
The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers - meaning Summary
An Appeal to Elemental Powers
Yeats's poem is a direct plea to elemental and cosmic forces to protect and soothe a beloved. The speaker summons winds, fire, dragon, and dim powers to fold away the harshness of day and night, to sing the woman into peace, and to replace turmoil with a gentle, musical silence. The tone mixes mythic grandeur with personal longing, treating nature's powers as custodians who can restore calm to the speaker's anxious heart.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, The Polar Dragon slept, His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep: When will he wake from sleep? Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease; Unfold your flaming wings and cover out of sight The nets of day and night. Dim powers of drowsy thought, let her no longer be Like the pale cup of the sea, When winds have gathered and sun and moon burned dim Above its cloudy rim; But let a gentle silence wrought with music flow Whither her footsteps go.
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