to sleep Flashcards
‘soft embalmer of the still midnight’
suspended death
wishes to prevent body from decaying
everything stops
‘careful fingers’
gentle
‘embower’d from the light’
truth
hides us from the reality of life
elongated vowels
‘enshaded in forgetfulness divine:’
helps
not thinking
‘soothest sleep!’
sibilance
soothing escape
‘hymn my willing eyes’
sleep is entrancing
‘amen’
sleep as a god
‘lulling charities’
sleep as a gift
‘save me’
religious connotations
‘breeding many woes’
escape from problems
‘save me from curious conscience’
wants to be saved from his thoughts
‘burrowing’
hidden
our minds can be destructive
‘sealed the hushed casket of my soul’
sleep is natural like death
structure
experimental sonnet - although it is a poem about love/ appreciation it is often overlooked or unusual
enjambment - calming
caesura - shows the need for sleep to interrupt our consciousness
headlines
reality cannot live up to imagination
sleep is an escape from reality
the beauty of simple human actions
the necessity of escape to the human experience
death like sleep is natural and inevitable
