please explain OFT IN A STILLY NIGHT ... IT IS A POEM BY THOMAS MOORE
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answer:what is the poem
Explanation:
In the poem, “Oft, in the Stilly Night,”
the poet shares his memories that come to him while lying in bed, “Ere slumber’s chain hath bound me.”
He recollects the memory of his boyhood days (the days which he enjoyed with his friends and lovers ) , the “boyhood’s years” that have fallen away and, in a sense, abandoned him.
In the second verse, when the poet talks about his friends who were drifted apart (by means of , may be death ) .
we can trace the reasons of his lonelyness by the following lines
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed!
We are all familiar with a certain aspect of the poem – the reflective feelings that come while one lies in bed before falling asleep. Nighttime has an almost occult ability to both soothe and haunt;
the speaker here is succumbing to the lonesomeness of the dark. The speaker has had a very happy life, full of friends and laughter and love; we can divine this from the images given in the first verse.
And now he lies alone at night, with nothing but memories to keep him company. His life, which was once so much like a smartly-decorated banquet, is now fading.
And in this state, “the light of other memories,” though painful when compared to his current state, is soothing in itself.