Broken Music Comments

Any person can find meaning and can relate to this poem, well penned indeed Mr Rossetti

Thus oft my soul has hearkened; till the song, A central moan for days, at length found tongue, And the sweet music welled and the sweet tears.

Very bad poem don't understand.

Sucky poem, doesn't make any since.

DGR shares his sorrow, grief, emptiness without a touch of self-pity...but only that his heart no longer sings.

i real like your peom because i remines me of my life kind of

The charm of the first verse is in the way the mother does not turn to the child when it first speaks because she longs to hear it speak again. How is this echoed in the second verse?

Rossetti begins by desribing the elation felt by a mother when her infant's babble becomes articulate. 'Thus oft...' refers I think to the process the poet goes through when composing, conceiving the idea for a poem and turning it into 'sweet music', comparing this to a mother's love for their creation, their child. But now the only voice he hears is that of his bitterly beloved and so his music is broken. Rossetti wrote this poem after the death of his wife by laudanum overdose and a year previously the death of their still born daughter. Death by suicide was condemned by the church perhaps refering to the pang of unpermitted prayer?

Deep poem, with a subtile message of birth calling to a higher power. From a mother with child, to mankind calling to GOD. All seem to seek the security of a higher security.

In a ready posture mother sits to hear the nurslings voice, but is no more to receive the prayer! A most insightful poem to read!

Very good once I decipherd the subtle message.

I adore Dante's poems and arts, big fan of his works. He is the prince of the Pre-raphaelite botherhood.

Broken music sings to me.....Another fantastic gem from D.G........Thank you for being such an inspiration With love and respect R.I.P Nickie xx xx

The perfect poem that we can all relate to