Light

                                                               Light

                                                                              By – F.W. Bourdillan


Poet Introduction : -

       Francis William Bourdillan was ( 1852 – 1921 ) a British poet and translator. He was educated at Worcester college of Oxford. He acted as tutor of the sons of prince holsteil. He is known mostly for his poetry and in particular the single short poem “ The night has thousand eyes”. He had a many collections published including among the flowers and other poem well known in the field of literature.

Poem Introduction : -

        This poetry is divided into two stanzas, each consisting of four lines as the title poem suggest it fexuses on the theme of light. This poem is short but it is meaningful poem about life. This popularity known a ' The night has thousand eyes' published in October 1873, Bourdillan campers the day with human beings.

Analysis : -

         In the very first stanza the poet uses personification by comparing eyes with stars “ The night has thousand eyes” by this line the poet wants to says that the eyes of the night are the stars and the eyes of day is sun in remaining two line the poet talks about the inevitability of the end to everything by saying that even the powerful sun has to die by the end of the day. A symbolic representation of light vs darkness.

          In the second stanza the night is no longer addressed but the human mind is spoken of and the heart is know personified the lines “ The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one”. The poet shows the fluctuating but in the heart is always advnanr and speaks truth. Heart i represent love and emotion, so will your emotion vanish. In the last two lines the poet talks about the light of the life dying which again is not our hand.

Conclusion : -

             Being a very simple poem. It talks about the mortality associated to everything related to nature. The poet want's to say that there is nothing in the world is permanent.

           Rhyming scheme of the poem is ABAB, and figures of speech is personification.