Hummingbirdtat2
10-11-2004, 10:57 AM
I'm doing a poetry analysis paper on this fantastic poem; which I can honestly say is one of my favorites. If, that is, a Shakespeare fan can ever really pick a favorite. In a way, it's like a parent with multiple children, the favorite is the one you're looking at, at any given moment.
I digress.
Anyway, I wanted to discuss the lines "It is the star to every wandering bark / Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
My interpretation of those lines is that we can never know exactly how important a star is, even if we go to the heavens and examine it first hand. We can feel the effects of it deeply in the ocean currents and gravity, but we can never fully understand it. The connotations of the symbolism would be, then, the way that we can feel love deeply, but never really understand it.
Any thoughts?
I digress.
Anyway, I wanted to discuss the lines "It is the star to every wandering bark / Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
My interpretation of those lines is that we can never know exactly how important a star is, even if we go to the heavens and examine it first hand. We can feel the effects of it deeply in the ocean currents and gravity, but we can never fully understand it. The connotations of the symbolism would be, then, the way that we can feel love deeply, but never really understand it.
Any thoughts?