Poem - For Anne Gregory
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The “great honey- colored/Ramparts at your ear” refers to the beautiful yellow colored hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it like a wall around a fort. He says that the young men are “thrown into despair” by them because they look so beautiful on the woman that her beauty gets thoroughly enhanced. The young men fall in love with her and feel despair. He says that it is not possible that someone would love her alone and not her yellow hair
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1.The poet says to the girl that a young man can become hopeless, if you will reject him. But this doesn’t mean that he had true love for you in his heart. It is because you have beautiful hair with which he had fallen in love. The girl has very beautiful hair. They fall on her ears and seemingly protect them just like a boundary wall protects the fort. So, here, the poet is pointing out at the reality which many people face during their youth, that they are liked by the opposite gender, not because of their inner beauty but because of their appearance.
2.yellow
She can dye her hair and change the colour into black, brown or carrot as this will no longer make her look less attractive. Then maybe she will find the young man who will love her inner beauty and not her appearance.