Nocturne (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tomas Tranströmer
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Perception, Emotions, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Hallucinations or illusions, Trees, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Houses, mansions, or manors, Automobiles, Thought or thinking, Sleep, Poetics, Night, Leaves
The Poem
“Nocturne” is a short poem in free verse, its sixteen lines divided into four stanzas. The title, suggesting a musical composition, establishes the mood of the poem. The night, in one of its traditional aspects, is a time for reverie, permitting the free play of thought and emotion expressed, for example, in the nocturnes of Frédéric Chopin. The poem is written in the first person. Sometimes poets use the first person to speak through a persona, whose outlook and experience may be quite different from their own. Here, however, no distinction is implied between...
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