Question

e) What does sleep gift us with in the poem "Lullaby"?​

Answer 1

The speaker tells his love to “Lay your sleeping head” on the speaker’s “faithless” arm. He thinks about how time and sickness can take away a child’s individual beauty, but it matters little because the grave claims us all anyway. However, until death comes, the speaker hopes his lover will lie in his arms, both alive and “entirely beautiful.”

Answer 2

Answer:

While they sleep a hermit’s “carnal ecstasy” is awakened as he roams vast glaciers and rocks.