Never Seek To Tell Thy Love Comments
Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.
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the poem is about a spiritual experience. a traveler came by, silently, invisibly, was god, but to speak of it, to place it in words will diminish it.
Well yes, you can say that if you view that one line in isolation, but how does that tally with the rest of the poem?
Amazingly conceptualized beautiful poem with rhyme and rhythm. Thanks for sharing it here.
..............wonderful poem...this poem is posted twice, though reading a second time is still just as nice ★
Yes, that's the line I've always known, makes sense of the rest of the poem.
Try substituting the feminine pronoun, as if from a woman's point of view. I believe you will see Blake was going for something much more transcendent than the macho perspective of taking a woman.
No, it is not the truth, and he would not be the poet he is had he written that drivel.
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9/5/2025 5:58:17 PM # 1.0.0
@Kaycee Pallas. You really shoudn't use words like drivel when discussing a poem, or anything else, for that matter. If Blake had wanted his poem to be viewed as you suggest he could have used the masculine pronoun himself.