I did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
Improvisation, or a settled game
That followed if I let the kerchief fall:
Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings
And heavenly music if they gave it wit;
And then you stood among the dragon rings.
I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it
And broke the chain and set my ankles free,
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;
And now we stare astonished at the sea,
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.
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I believe that the author of this poem is referring to a women who has showed him what love is. Before this women came along the speaker lead a life that was wrong and sinful. The dragon in this poem is a symbol for the devil or maybe sin. The women that is being referenced in this poem to a man from sin and showed him the correct path. She is his savior.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Arthur that this poem is about a woman who shows him what love really means, perhaps its the first time the poet falls in love when he says "broke the chain and set my ankles free" he might of fallen in love for the first time and the chain on his ankles might be a symbol for loneliness or a loveless life. And at the end the "miraculous strange bird" that shrieks them is a symbol for the mutual love they feel for each other.
ReplyDeleteI believe this poem is refering to a love one as well as Arthur and Chris. The author of this poem is talking about finding a love one. “I did the dragon’s will to you came”, the author might mean that he flew around trying to find that person till he met her. He had done this to find the love he always dram of. “I mocked being crazy but you mastered it” he believed to be crazy, that he was able to do everything until she appeared and helped him settle down. This poem is about someone finding true love and settling down.
ReplyDeleteI Agree With The Other Three Commentators. The Poem Is About Someone Who Finally Realized What Love Meant. "I Broke My Chains And Set My Ankles Free" The Author Is Explaining That He Now New What Love Means So He Is Free And Now He Can Be With This Woman. In The End When The Author Says "And now we stare astonished at the sea,
ReplyDeleteAnd a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us." To Me It Means That Because The Bird Shrieked Maybe He Really Doesn't Now What Love Is .
I agree with the previous comments. The speaker didn't believe in love and even mocked it. " Because I had fancied love a casual/ Improvisation, or a settled game." This shows that he thought love was really casual (not important) and just slept around with people. Then, he talks about a person who "mastered" love. They knew what love really was and were in love with someone. That person taught him what love really was. "And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us." Maybe this bird symbolizes freedom and instability, what he had before he fell in love. The bird is trying to get him to return to how he was before.
ReplyDeletei think the dragon's will reffers to what people were telling the man how love was suppose to be like. the will is what everyone around thinks is correct, it's the big rule. he broke his chains once the woman came because how the other people wrote, he found true love and the dragon's will was no longer the most important, the bird to me signifies that once everything is right, he hasn't seen anything as amazing as the bird before.
ReplyDelete"And then you stood among the dragon rings./I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it." He fell in love/attraction with someone that was better than himself. He no longer held the thrown of "I did the dragon's will until you came". Because this other person took it away from him.
ReplyDeleteThis poem when reading it at first does seem about love, but once I reread a couple of times I noticed "Saint Georgeor else a pagan Perseus". It just seems to be talking about good and evil. Perseus got rid of evil he killed gorgon medusa and a sea monster. So something evil within the narrator died when this person came to his life, or even he died completely maybe he is the reference of medusa or the sea monster.
Then again love can kill a little evil inside so it can be about love.