nooshin
  Bronze Member

wow! yes... exactly! you could relate deeply... really appreciate your comment , dear fellow poet!

thank you! yes... hope his message will grow into a big tree...

what a journey! really enjoyed the sour/sweet taste of this poem that expanded a simple metaphor into a journey of understanding and wisdom...
all the poetic games with words were also sweet...

the magic of the poem is in the opening stanza especially the first 2 lines: loving a person two or three times even before knowing her face or name! then the firework in the mind begins and the poet shows how this is possible... at the end you come to a new understanding of love... beautiful! more »

all goes to the beauty of your poem... :)

really enjoyed reading this... i especially liked the way the candle and the reflection of the persona's face resembled the sun and the moon... and how all the elements of nature joined in a cosmic dance with both... more »

this poem is magic!
i've read it many times during my life... and found out we are at such fork many many times... in fact we live to choose...

and the secret message is hidden in these lines:

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

yes, we can never come back... we just go forward to face another fork... :) more »

powerful imagery and symbolism... it touches a chord deep within the soul... exactly where that voice in the well of our subconscious is waiting to be released... to travel on... to share its story with others...
this seemingly simple poem has the power to level off the slopes of solitude and abandonment... more »

Keats beautifully and cleverly answers the question he himself puts forward: the poet is everywhere and nowhere... can we show him/her? yes... and no! s/he is everywhere... can understand people of all walks of life... can understand the language of beasts like his/her own mother tongue... this encompassing presence gives the poet a godlike role... more »

one of the beauties of this poem is that it creates a perfect circle... It starts with daffodils (the real ones) and ends with daffodils (the thought of them)... thus creating a path for us to have a journey within... and aren't daffodils the symbol of introspection? wow! the tapestry of words, images and symbols is masterfully woven... more »

love the way this seemingly frivolous rhythm comes to a deep philosophical ending...

the poem starts bitterly but then you are drawn into a tapestry of beautiful words and images and sensations... where all you can taste is sweet...
the juxtaposition of bitter reality and sweet dreams does not create regret but an elevating experience of love... bravo! more »

needed this right now! poets are time travelers... walking right beside you with their bag full of word jewels...

really enjoyed it... especially because it tested creativity too...

wow! an engaging innocent image that suddenly pierces through your soul... loved it!