When do the past memories occur to the past ? Poem - Oft, in the stilly night
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In “Oft, in the Stilly Night,” the speaker is talking about all the memories that come to him as he is lying in bed, “Ere slumber’s chain hath bound me.” He remembers fondly old friends and lovers, the “boyhood’s years” that have fallen away and, in a sense, abandoned him. The poem is a very lonely one, bathed in the sadness of nostalgia and a longing to return to days past. In the second verse, when the speaker is thinking of all his friends that have fallen – we can assume that here he means they have died, though we cannot be sure; it is possible they have just drifted apart – he mourns that
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.
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In a stilly night, when the slumberer's chain bounded the poet at that time the past memories occured to the poet