Poetry #2

Work Without Hope
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(composed 21st February 1825)
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair --The bees are stirring -- birds are on the wing --And Winter slumbering in the open air,Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.





http://www.mcgill.ca/files/researchoffice/GaultNatureReserve.jpg (hyperlink to my picture, wouldnt copy & paste)





I think that this poem is well represented in this picture because of the serene nature reference. This peom is about nature's features of calmness and beauty, and therefore sense of being in touch with one's own emotions and hope. This picture depocts nature at its best. I shows a beautiful scene in which I merely look into the distance in this picture and can feel the "hope" represented in this peom. Nature's beauty is very deep and intense; this poem conveys that nature brings out more than the eye can see, but what the heart can feel. The most important aspect of this poem and picuture is the fact that they convey hope. By looking into this picture you can feel the emotions of faith and hope through the serenity and intense beauty and simple calmness. That is what the poem is all about interpretting and revealing.