Analysis Of The Poem This Lunar Beauty Essay - 1774 Words

W.H. Auden’s â€Å"This Lunar Beauty† can be read as a poem as an enigmatic love that baffles the speaker, as he attempts to understand the complexity of the lunar beauty. However, Auden lived during the early 1900s and identified himself as a gay man, though he was married, briefly, to a woman. Understanding Auden’s biographical lifestyle can lead one to read â€Å"This Lunar Beauty† under a queer lens. Although the queerness of the poem is not directly stated; the structure and language of the poem lead â€Å"This Lunar Beauty† to be interpreted as a gay relationship that is hidden during the day and is able to come forth during the night when both the speaker and the lunar beauty are able to be their true selves. When reading Auden’s â€Å"This Lunar Beauty† under a queer lens, it is imperative to note how Auden plays with the passage of time and in turn, how the difference between day and night lead the poem to undergo a queer inte rpretation. The â€Å"beauty† that the speaker finds himself captivated by is surrounded by darkness. Particularly, the speaker personifies this love as â€Å"lunar,† as in, it is not found during the day light hours. By characterizing the love as lunar, not only does it relay to the audience that this love the speaker has found is strictly found during the darkness, but also that this love is cyclic in nature, similar to the moon’s cycles. The image of the moon is striking and leads to an interpretation of the poem that can be seen as a queer poem. The lunar beauty isShow MoreRelatedKubla Khan and Its Relation to Romanticism2675 Words   |  11 Pageshave been planning a two hundred to three hundred line poem before he got interrupted by a man from Porlock, after which he had forgotten nearly all of his dream. This may have been merely an excuse, and the poem was scorned at the time for having no poetic value, one critic even going so far as to call it more a musical composition than a poem. This is partly true, as the language seems to strive for an aural beauty more than a literary beauty, although it accomplishes both. Like many great artistsRead MoreA Picatrix Miscellany52019 Words   |  209 PagesSage) of al-Majriti, Maslamati ibn Ahmad II. Summary of the Contents of the Picatrix III. Excerpt from a Lecture on Alchemy by Terence McKenna On the Moon and the Lunar Mansions IV. Extracts on the Moon V. The Mansions of the Moon: â€Å"On the Creation, Proportion and Composition of the Heavens for the Fashioning of Images† VI. The Picatrix: Lunar Mansions in Western Astrology VII. W. B. Yeats and â€Å"A Vision:† The Arab Mansions of the Moon On Ritual and Talismans Picatrix Astrological Magic Aphorisms ExtractsRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesupdated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright  © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions: