Lullaby-
W.H.Auden.
Summary
"Lullaby"
is a love poem spoken to someone who's sleeping. Romantic or Creepy? You be the
judge. The speaker begins by telling his lover to lay his head on the speaker's
arm. He then takes a minute to think about the fact that beauty can't last
forever because death comes for us all in the end. depressing. He concludes
that even his lover isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: he's "entirely
beautiful" anyway.
Then
the speaker gets a little pensive; he starts to think about a bunch of random
things, like Venus (the Roman goddess
of love), a hermit who has an ecstatic experience, and madmen who bemoan the
future. But despite all these (usually negative) wandering thoughts, he doesn't
want to forget anything that has happened on this beautiful night with his
lover.
The
speaker says one more time that everything dies eventually (we get the point,
Mr. Depressing), but then he begins to speak directly to his sleeping beloved.
He prays (in the least religious way possible) that his beloved will experience
life and "find the mortal world enough." Basically, he hopes his
lover won't go looking too far for the answers to life's big questions. At the
end of the poem, he says that the man is "watched by every human
love." It's not God who looks after his sleeping beloved; it's the speaker
himself.
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