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Brilliant poem! on poem Lady


  • bor
    Sep 19 4:28 PM 2006
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    What does everyone think this poem about. Is it about a woman 'his love' being unfaithful?

  • rufina caraid
    September 19, 2006
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    Blow the cobwebs from the mirror
    See yourself at last.

    I feel that the 'woman' is seeing herself for what she is. The 'crossroads' she reaches is a crossroad in her life and now she has to choose which direction she must go.

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    September 19, 2006
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    I am not sure exactly what any poem is truly about but to me it sounds as if the poet is berating a false lover who would have her man be something other than he really is

    Lady, weeping at the crossroads
    Would you meet your love
    In the twilight with his greyhounds,
    And the hawk on his glove?

    This would seem to imply that she wants a member of the landed gentry from the days when only the very rich and powerful could hunt with hounds and falcons. Men from a time long before the date when this poem was written.

    In the following verses the poet sets more obviously impossible conditions for the woman to achieve and ultimately says she must acknowledge her futile quest.

    Of course it may also be just a long winded way of saying her lover is dead (the crossroad reference could be taken to mean a place of execution) and that the poet thinks the woman is being overly demonstrative.

    What do you think?
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