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THOMAS HARDY
WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE
1. when the poet set out for Lyonnesse it was winter season the foliage of the trees was covered with frost he had to travel very far. The place was hundred miles away
2. No prophet or the wisest wizard could guess what experience the poet would have at Lyonnesse . He himself couldn’t predict his future.
3. When the poet returned from Lyonnesse his eyes were bright with happiness. It was as if he had experienced a revelation of life.everyone silently noticed that the poet’s happiness was of a rare quality and which cannot be mesured.
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When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
LYONNESSE : THE MYTHICAL BIRTH PLACE OF SIR TRISTRAM, IN ENGLAND ,BELIVED TO HAVE BEEN SUBMERGED BY THE SEA ;HERE AN IMAGINARY PLACE
Rime :frostThe spray : leaves and branches of trees ;foliage
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guessWhat would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.
Bechance : happen/or chance to happen
Sojourn : stay Prophet : priest Durst : dared Wizard : Magician
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!
Mute : Unable to speak
Surmise : guess Radiance : glow Fathomless : deep
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