IfTomorrowNeverCame

• Last seen on Aug 3 2:10 AM 2008. Member since July 11, 2006.
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• on This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden, on August 3, 2008

  I think the ghosts are past lovers.
  I find it interesting how he says "this like a dream" because that just says (to me) that love is an idial vision, that it isn't actually real.
  Yet Auden, in many of his poems, gives the sense that love is something everyone needs, without it, well there's nothing worse. Like, it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. His love poems interest me, and his are the only love poems I've can stand to read.
• on Lady by W H Auden, on August 3, 2008

  In my opinion...

  It's the journey of love and life, to find truth.
  The crossroads is obviously the point of decision making, which is inevitable in life. The decision is about the journey, it could be whether to take it or which road during it would be the best to take.
  The image of the hawk on his glove is great, it presents the lack of freedom (for in the time of that image, the hawk would literally be bound to the glove) but it also represents the idea of commitment. Also, it raises the question, would you allow yourself to be bound to someone?
  The use of "Starless" is yet another reference to the journey, and that a lot of the time the journey is unknown. There are no stars, therefore there is no direction or navigation. Think of what the stars are used for, a giant, natural compass.
  I think that the "Deep though it may be and bitter/You must drink it dry" lines are an indication that no matter what, you must overcome certain things and move on.
  To me, it's obvious what "the golden key" is - the ultimate answer. Further on, when the lady is at the "deserted castle", it's this key that allows her inside. The castle, is the heart. Yes, it is deserted, but only for the start. It's saying that love has to be built up, it isn't magically there but rather it has to be created. And the castle is the end of the journey, she's found what she was looking for in a sense. Be it her own heart or someone else's, it doesn't really matter.
  
  Her plunging the penknife in her heart, her "false heart" at that, says that she is not actually prepared to be in love with total commitment. That's why she's taken the journey, to find those truths. Truth is a sense of commitment through good and bad, and being prepared to sacrifice for it. She's not ready for that. However, the interesting part that caught my eye is that in the end, she is not prepared to love with total commitment and so in a sense her journey is not successful, yet in the other sense it was because she has found that honesty about herself.
  
  It's a brilliant piece, so many things to think about.