Love In The Asylum Comments

This poem, to me, is about Thomas' love of himself, as A. Nonymous has written. He's trying to find how to love a man who is both a madman and an angel, a man with demons and brilliance. Love, is love of self. And the Asylum is Thomas' own state of mind.

He's talking about his wife Caitlin, she was very mad and full of fury, he's talking about living with her and how chaos and madness is the same as the chaos that gave birth to the universe e.g. set fire to the stars

An unusual setting for a love poem-in an asylum. The woman patient is or was the object of his love. She is 'a girl mad as birds'. He thinks back to when he first saw and loved her, ' I may without fail/ suffer the first vision that set fire to stars'. A great ending.

Strange & dark is this work billowing with a many esoteric underlyings...

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this simply is one of the best poems that I have ever read, I frequently turn back to it, as mad as birds set fire to the stars two of the lines most attractive to me I love it

Wow. I didn't know about this poem. I only found this when I was trying to find the lyrics to the song by the same name by the band Ringside. After reading the poem, I can see that the song is definitely based on the poem. Some of the lines are similar, such as A stranger's come/ To share my room in a house not right in the head. / A girl who's mad as a bird doomed / Shot down from Heaven's bed. and Through delusive light on the bouncing walls / In trenches too narrow to share. / Dying men of madness roar / Of burdens too great to bear. / In the light of her arms she takes me in / The walls disappear. The song makes a lot more sense now. This song was one of my favorites. It's a great song. However, now I'd have to say I like to poem better.

I agree with Laura. It's beautiful.

One of my most favourites