He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven Comments
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
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Beautiful poem by Yeats. All can dream whether rich or poor. But to tread carefully
A very good choice, the best choice as The Classic Poem Of The Day. This Beauty of a poem deserves the highest rate. To My Favourites too. Yeats my most favourite poets of all times.5 Stars!
Wonderful poem with a meaningful message. Powerful closure line.
The devotion to love is the highest degree of love that is finally realized in devotion.
A tremendous last line: ' Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.' A poor person cannot afford expensive, embroidered cloths as a gift, but has only his dreams to offer.
Well expressed thoughts and feelings. A beautiful work of art.
Yeats has brought out the contrasting images here. The rich-poor divide. The poem opens with the haughty richness indicated by the Cloths of Heaven” embroidered in gold and silver light. But then it turns out that it is just a dream. The poor has only dreams to spread before the world. So, ” tread softly” is the message to the rich, because, it is on the dreams of the poor that you, the rich, tread.... Very poignant write.
Ha! Lovely poem. The poems is on “his” desire for the cloths of heaven... The reader is taken on a fantastic ride in the gay abandon of the heavens. But, abruptly, he is rudely dropped back to earth: “ But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. “” The reader misses a heartbeat or two...
The poem ends with a prayer not to tread hard on the dreams. The contrasting dreams and the poverty are left to the God to decide upon as to which one is to prevail.
I believed that I had heard of a slightly different quote: ...but I, being poor, have only my dreams. I spread my dreams beneath your feet, tread softly, lest you tread on my dreams. Do you have any info on this version?
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A positive vibe poem of the day.