write a note on the theme of love in the poems you have studied in "beyond the beaton track"
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answer:- In “The Balcony” a first-person voice, closely associated with the poet himself, speaks to a beloved woman using the familiar form of address, reserved in nineteenth century French for the most intimate relationships. The first stanza apostrophizes the beloved as “Mother of memories, Mistress of mistresses” and invites her to remember an earlier period of shared love. These memories are located in the home, or hearth; their time is evening, and the tone of the stanza, as of the poem in general, is elegiac and directs the reader’s attention to a lost past of beauty, caresses, sweetness, and charm.
The second stanza is written in the imperfect tense, indicating habitual action in the past. The scene is set in early evening, either by the glow of a coal fire or of sunset on the balcony of the title. In an atmosphere of warmth and enclosure, the breast and heart of the beloved are offered to the poet; they say “imperishable” things.
The third stanza opens in the present tense; it evokes the eternal beauty of evening skies, the depth of space, and the power of the heart. The beloved is addressed as a queen. The poet remembers physical closeness so intense that he used to breathe the scent of her blood. This stanza is remarkable in its simultaneous evocation of light, warmth, and scent.
The fourth stanza, in the imperfect tense, moves from sunset to nightfall, when darkness deepens to form a wall about the balcony. The poet divines, rather than sees, the eyes of the beloved. Within this wall of darkness, intimacy is absolute. The poet “drinks” the breath of the beloved, which is both sweet and poisonous, and holds her slumbering feet in “brotherly” hands. The fifth stanza returns to the present tense and declares the poet’s power to evoke past happiness; he relives the past paradise in the present embrace of the beloved. It is her “languorous beauties” which defined the past and provide the key to recalling it.
In stanzas 1 through 5, each first line is repeated word-for-word in the fifth line. In the sixth stanza, the first and fifth lines, although similar in their wording, are not identical. The first line refers to “These vows, these sweet perfumes, these kisses” as objects, the fifth line apostrophizes them. This strophe turns wistfully to the future and asks if past delights can be born again as setting suns are reborn
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