Lullaby
Wysten
Huge Auden was born in York on 21st February, 1907, this mother was a nurse and
his father was a doctor. He went to St. Edmand school in 1915 were he met
cristopher Isher Wood. Auden was also at christ church oxford from 1925
to 1928. He has travelled to many countries and his frequent visit to
foreign countries has given him a fruitful literary career. Auden's first
volumes of poems was dedicated to Isher Wood, he visited Germany and it was
hear he can to connect with Germany celebrates songs Rabe's poetry.
Lay your
sleeping head my love later and titled “Lullaby” is perhaps the best non– lyric
of Auden. It was first published in 1937, and then included in the collected
shorter poems, 1950. It’s theme is love. A conventional theme but it finds a
fresh and original treatment.
The poem
opens in end of abrupt colloquial manner of the metaphysical and in a manner of
John Donne. The Lyric is in the nature of a monologue “spoken by the lover”
whose believed is sleeping near him after the act love making. The beloved has
gone to sleep after love making and the lover wants her to place her head on
his arm. The lovers has no illusion about their love. He knows, that his beloved
is a mere human being which implies and imperfection. He does not glorify her
as a Goddess in the conventional manner, but he realize that she is made of the
common human clay. Similarly, the lover has no elusion about himself. He knows
that he is not loyal and that his love is ephemeral. That his human life is short and its end with
the gray and the only things permanent about the human condition everything
else is ephemeral.
The lover
does not have any illusions neither for his beloved nor for himself because he
knows that he is faithless in love and that his love is ephemeral. As a matter
of act he understands that man are mortals and there comes along with the
growing age, oldage, access, weakness lazy and death. These are the only
permanent and universal fact the human condition. Everything is temporary, even
the charms of children end with the passing of time. The realistic lover also
recognized that there love too is subject to Decky and death inspite of all this short comings,
the lover finds the beloved entire beautiful and wants her to remain in his
arms for the whole night. She may be merely human so sinful and faithless but
still he accepts her and her love and finds deep joy in her company despite the
ephemeral nature of their love, the lovers
experience mystical ecstasy in their physical union with each other. Keeping
the poem in a conventional theme of the metaphysical here, for the moment the
souls the lovers break the bows of the body and become one, fuse and mingle
with each other. Their carnal love is thus transformed into a spiritual union,
a source of mystical bliss. Such as the hermit experience in moments of mystic
union with God.
In this simile
Auden wants to show that there is no
essential difference between the ecstasy of the lovers and the hermit in deep
meditation, that is physical, thus, transformed into the spiritual and
according to the metaphysical poet John Donne lovers become said of love, like
the metaphysical.
Auden’s
concept of love in this lyric is weight of thought and so different from the
conventional lyric. The lovers have to pay the full prize in terms of
suffering, for their moments of physical
satisfaction because as the night passes and when the morning comes the
disillusionment and all their visions of love and beauty will come to end and
they will grow entirely indifferent to each other the fountain of love will dry
up in their heat and they will becomes spiritually wretched and miserable. This
is the very core and center of Auden’s philosophy and this is the message of
the present lyric.
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