A Party Of Lovers Comments

Quote “A fly is in the milk-pot - must he die By a humane society? “ The question the Poet asks is, how humane is the human? We see a very pensive poet here..

romantic poem with extraordinary skill and rhythm... Beautifully executed..

Not that good of a poem garbage

Nice poem

...sits very well. Nicely comunicated

Words well chiseled out.

Can someone please help me annotate this?

The essence of love wonderfully created in this poem by the most respected poet in English language. I like the poet very much and this poem also.

live where you pleased, fine.

I like this...very classy poem...he has captured the attitudes of the upper class precisely :)

A fly is in the milk pot- -must he die by a humane society? . The little straggler saved from perils dark.. Beautiful write...Loved reading it.

Times have changed since Keats, but the essence of love, loving and lovers remains the same.

Is the coat the winding-sheet? The tailor..might live where he pleas'd Is he the Angel of Death? Keats writes very mysterious poetry.

I think the cauliflower is the molten wax at the base of a candle which has been burning for a long time. It can form a cauliflower-like shape, albeit flat. He is telling us he has been there a long time, while the lovers mooned over each other. The winding-sheet is more mysterious. They used to be used for wrapping a corpse for burial.

the two at the table are potential lovers but there is sexual tension because they are shy. the fly in the milk represents this tension, and once it is removed the narrator feels he should depart to let the youngins flourish in eachother. he doesn't solicit his tailor in hopes of quickly leaving To No.7, just beyond the circus gay. just my take on it.

The poem's meaning is in its title. The guest was invited to tea/dinner/whatever with two lovers present who must be at the early stages so could only sigh about each other and could not reveal their feelings to other people. Hence the forgetfulness about the coal and boredom for several guests as one of the lovers must be a host and in this situation he or she was not performing their duties very well. The guest (the author) then had had enough of it, stood up and decided to leave. The host mumbled polite questions with no meaning and hence the reluctance of the guest to answer them properly.

I must like to vote my favorite poet. the flow of this poem is efficient.

In a world where everything is bound to break, someone will always be there to dip a handle in the milk and set us free

Arise! take snuffers by the handle, There's a large cauliflower in each candle. A winding-sheet, ah me! I must away the definition of snuffer is A small hollow metal cone on the end of a handle, used to extinguish a candle by smothering the flame. when a flame is extinguished by smothering, the smoke clumps together and when released, it starts out puffy and cloudy and disepates into a long smooth trail of light smoke. the words cauliflower + winding-sheet are metaphors for the smoke. It is late; why else would the maid not bring more coal to keep the fire lit? But the group of rich folk have not been gathered long since their tea is still hot. I don't know why he must away to No.7but he is not very good friends with these people because his excuse for leaving is very abrupt and he does not want to disclose the information about his taylor... maybe because he does not want to see them again? I'm not sure. But i gave this poem a rating of 8 because of his clever rhyme scheme and because in this poem, he's telling a story :)

i guess he just want to show the languidness and boringness of the upper class in english society. anyway, i dont like this poem.