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Question: What's this poem about!?
Obviously, I have my own ideas, since I wrote it, but I was wondering about its potential audience!?
MERCURIAL
lithe as lightning!
the sun's first child:
see the quicksilver god
fly swift as an arrow
through the seething air;
quick now - before it's too late! -
hear speed hiss from wing-tip;
and as he glances into our dreams,
feel your soul licked -
just once -
by the heat of the sun;
then he's gone,
tangential as a comet,
never to return:
for soon he splits the endless dark
hurtling through the cruellest cold
leaping over the billion seconds
racing the sun to its grave!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Well, in Roman mythology, Mercury is the messenger for the gods!. And the word "mercurial" means "quick and changeable, volatile"!.!.!.
The poem makes me think of the first ray of sunshine in the morning!.
As you said, that ray of light is cutting through our dreams, the morning fog/mist, darkness and cold!. A ray of sunlight can be considered "lithe" - it's constantly changing it's course and shape, depending on what's in it's path (clouds, trees, buildings, etc)!. Since it lights the sky around the sun, it also goes before, or "race[es] the sun to its grave"!.
Good job on the poem!. I like it!. It makes you think without making you think TOO much in order to get the symbolism!. (Or what I think the symbolism is, at least!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com