This one is a Metaphysical poetry. It deals with new actuality. By new actuality meaning the new findings in 19th century. This Piece instead of metaphysics deals with actuality, for there are no references and abstractions.
The unknown anonymous speaker in the poem is a lover who scrutinizes the very aspect of love. He starts the poem by implying that the love he holds is “rare” and “strange” because it was “begotten by Despair, Upon Impossibility.” He continues by saying that for him only anguish could possibly unveil “so divine a thing”, because “Hope” could never get close to it. He fantasies that he “quickly might arrive” the destination it’s leading him to, but discovers that his spirit’s tendencies are foiled by destiny, who “drives iron wedges” between the anonymous speaker and the one he holds this love for. …show more content…
Because that way it would dissolve the power that destiny holds, so destiny has put the lovers in different physical spheres, like “distant poles” that can reach each other. They have to stay unconnected, he says, unless “giddy Heaven” collapses or the whole universe instantly “cramped into a planisphere.” Then he differentiates their correspondence to two unending string, and they create a perfect circle separately afterwards. Because these strings are parallel, and they will not be able to interact with each other. So he reaches a conclusion, that destiny has desirously dissolved the only thing that ties him up with his beloved and that is the love shared between them, and the unification of their intellects is the only way they could be
The unknown anonymous speaker in the poem is a lover who scrutinizes the very aspect of love. He starts the poem by implying that the love he holds is “rare” and “strange” because it was “begotten by Despair, Upon Impossibility.” He continues by saying that for him only anguish could possibly unveil “so divine a thing”, because “Hope” could never get close to it. He fantasies that he “quickly might arrive” the destination it’s leading him to, but discovers that his spirit’s tendencies are foiled by destiny, who “drives iron wedges” between the anonymous speaker and the one he holds this love for. …show more content…
Because that way it would dissolve the power that destiny holds, so destiny has put the lovers in different physical spheres, like “distant poles” that can reach each other. They have to stay unconnected, he says, unless “giddy Heaven” collapses or the whole universe instantly “cramped into a planisphere.” Then he differentiates their correspondence to two unending string, and they create a perfect circle separately afterwards. Because these strings are parallel, and they will not be able to interact with each other. So he reaches a conclusion, that destiny has desirously dissolved the only thing that ties him up with his beloved and that is the love shared between them, and the unification of their intellects is the only way they could be