Monday, January 30, 2012

Is there irony in this poem?

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the even-song;

And, having pray'd together, we

Will go with you along.



We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

Is there irony in this poem?
Not in the classical sense, no. I suppose if you look long enough for an interpretation that takes the human life and compares it to that of the flower, and extrapolates some sardonic twist to use requesting that that flower abide whilst we also die, yadda ya....it's a stretch. Sorry, I don't think this poem is ironic.
Reply:irony is hard-honestly. i can't find any irony in it, sorry.

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