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Nov 10, 2016 · From sunsets to twilight and dusky moments, poets have often focused on that time of day when the light is fading, and mused upon the significance of it. Below are ten of the best evening poems, anti-aubades (aubades, from the French for dawn, are poems about the other end of the day), whether literal or metaphorical evenings.
Toward evening, as the light failed and the pear tree at my window darkened, I put down my book and stood at the open door, the first raindrops gusting in the eaves, a smell of wet clay in the wind. Sixty years ago, lying beside my father, half asleep, on a bed of pine boughs as rain drummed…
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By gift of speech or grace of song, Seizes by forceful hand the helm, Or adds an Empire to the Realm, Confronts the sun with forehead bare, Exulting in the Noonday Glare. III. But, as the lengthening shadows glide. Silent towards the eventide, And dew baptizes leaf and flower. In twilight's sanctuary hour, A sacred Something haunts the air,
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In ‘To the Evening Star’, William Blaketalks about the goddess Venus and how she beautifies nature during the evening. This poem centers on the evening star. However, the poet, more specifically, refers to the goddess Venus. Venus is also the second planet in the solar system and a sister planet of earth. It appears just after dusk. According to th...
The poem consists of a total of 14 lines. The lines do not rhyme together. For this reason, this poem is in free verse. However, the poet maintains the flow of the poem by using internal rhyming. The movement of the poem does not halt for a single moment for these internally rhyming lines. Apart from that, each line of the poem contains 10 syllable...
Blake begins this poem, ‘To the Evening Star’with a metaphor. Here, the poet uses an allusion to the Roman goddess of beauty, fertility, and desire, Venus. Along with that, in this metaphor, the poet compares the evening star to an angel having fair hair. In the next line, the poet uses personification. Readers can find the use of enjambment in the...
Blake employs the themes of innocence vs experience, natural beauty, light, darkness, passion, divinity, and purity in this poem. The most important theme of this poem innocence vs experience. Here, the poet depicts the theme in the last few lines of the poem. Thereafter, the settingdisplays the theme of natural beauty, specifically the nocturnal o...
Lines 1–4
The poem begins with a direct reference to the evening star as an angel. The poetic persona of the poem thinks the star is a “fair-haired” angel who protects the nocturnal beauty of nature. When the sun sets behind the mountain, the star appears in the sky. According to the poet, the star lights the “bright torch of love” at that time. So, the evening star is a symbol of love too. Moreover, the speaker requests the angel to put on her “radiant crown” and smile upon their evening bed. Here, th...
Lines 5–9
Thereafter, the speaker tells the star to smile at their loved ones. It seems that the angelic star becomes pleased to see her children in happiness. Moreover, the poet says the evening star draws the “blue curtains of the sky” and scatters the “silvery dew” on every flower. When the flowers shut their eyes in timely sleep after sunset, the evening star blesses them with her “silvery dew”. Apart from that, the speaker requests the star to let her west wind sleep on the lake. As the west wind...
Lines 10–14
In the last section of the poem, ‘To the Evening Star’, the poet requests the angel of the evening to wash the dusk with silver. From this section, the poem takes a quick turn to the theme of experience. However, the star is going to disappear in the night sky very soon. Then the wolf and the lion, symbolsof experience, will come out and flare through the dark forest. The poet knows her absence will lead the dark forces to capture the landscape that, a few moments ago, was drenching in purity...
William Blake, one of the early romantics, viewed nature in a different vein. His use of symbolism as well as religious ideas, makes his poetic works stand apart from a greater volume of romantic poetry. Moreover, his use of vivid imagery is another important aspect of his poems. Blake’s “Song of Innocence and of Experience” presents the nature of ...
Here is a list of some poems which contain similar themes present in Blake’s ‘To the Evening Star’. 1. The Light of Starsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow– This poem describes the state of the night sky and the Ancient Roman deity, Mars. 2. Song: Go and catch a falling starby John Donne– It’s one of the best John Donne poemsand here he uses a metaphysi...
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‘Ode to Evening’ by William Collins describes the natural beauty of evening by using vivid imagery. This picturesque poem presents a variety of images that beautifully depict the natural setting in the evening.
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‘A Hymn to the Evening’ is a poem written by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-84) in praise of the evening. Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral appeared in 1773 when she was probably still in her early twenties.
