Reconciliation
Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you — but now
We’ll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we’re in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.
Analysis 1
The poem consists of 6 sets of rhyming couplets, each written in loose iambic pentameter. The title ‘Reconciliation’ is indicative of the theme set in the poem by the opening line “Some may have blamed you that you took away” – this implying that the author no longer holds any blame towards the subject. There is a recurring imagery of violence in the poem:
“Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you“
However interestingly it is weakened or almost forgotten and this again links into the theme of reconciliation. The above text implying that once the memories the author held were hostile, but now they re half forgotten as it was long ago. In the final line he says that his barren thoughts have chilled him to the bone, implying that he does not want to resume this hostile way of thinking an instead have the woman back close to him.
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