Night (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Bly
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Flowers, Death or dying, Ships, Trees, Horses, Joy or sorrow, Pirates, Butterflies, Reason or reasoning, Sleep, Logic, Night, Wood
The Poem
“Night,” written in free verse, is a short poem divided into four sections, each of which is four lines long. Like many of Robert Bly’s titles, “Night” appears to be a title without pretense or philosophical complexity; the poem is, however, richer in meaning than the title indicates. Night is a time for dreamlike thought, unmoored from the world of daylight’s reason and logic. Bly’s four sections offer four visions of night’s mysteries.
The poem is written in the first person, but it moves from a particular first-person-singular speaker—Bly...
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