Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
- And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
The first interesting technique that i see, is that this entire poem could be considered one single, but also extended, sentence. Rather, it could be considered a very very beautiful rhetorical question. This poem is definitely one single open ended question, with a lot of gorgeous phrases. I really really enjoy percy bysshe shelly’s style of writing. Lets begin.
SO I have already pointed out that one technique is the poem being one sentence. The second technique is that the poem is rhetorical. The third, is it’s elevated, romanticized diction, “art thou pale”. It is a beautiful beautiful style of writing. The diction, is very very euphonious as well as the syntax. The words are all very soft. Also, the inverted syntax makes the poem very interesting. The rhyme scheme is ABABCC, which is similar to a sonnet, but I am sure there is a special word for it. The last two lines don’t even completely rhyme, however they are similar enough.
It is interesting to me, that this poem, truly is absolutely beautiful. Interesting enough, this poem is a ridiculously romanticized poem, but it really was only written to the moon. WIth this style of writing, if a man were to read this poem to me, i would probably cry, because it is just beautiful… the humor would be that there would not be much about it.
