My featured Poem

The Crystal Gazer

I. About the Poem

The Crystal Gazer

I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
Fusing them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.

I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go,
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In restless self-importance to and fro.    



-Sara Tasdale   

 http://movingpoems.com/2010/12/the-crystal-gazer-by-sara-teasdale/                

 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-crystal-gazer-2/

II. About the Author

this poem made by The American Sara Teasdale, who lived from 1884-1933.
★Sara Teasdale's other poems 
→ http://www.poemhunter.com/sarah-teasdale/poems/page-1/

Works Cited

http://the-crystal-gazer.blogspot.jp/

IV. My Reaction

A. rhyme- (韻)

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.this poem uses "I shall".

emphasize by repeat.

B. euphemism- (婉曲)

an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant .

this poem not easy to understand expression. 

for example,"And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In restless self-importance to and fro."

 

C.free verse-(自由詩)

a type of poem with no form or structure.

D. My General Opinion

I read it to mean that Sara had been involved in many things, but became a bit of a cynic. She stopped being so many different selves to so many different people and became just herself, watching the world go by as she contemplated the silliness that is mankind.