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Come away = come here?

 
 
Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 12:49 am


Context:

Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of the reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.



Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.



Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.



Away with us he's going,
The solemn eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
For he comes, the human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand.
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aidan
 
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Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 03:14 am
@oristarA,
Very beautiful Oristar - who wrote it?

The first time I read it, I thought that 'away' was a metaphor for death...
This stanza gave me that idea:

'Away with us he's going,
The solemn eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
For he comes, the human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand. '

But then when I read it again, as a whole, I think 'away' could possibly be more a dreamland where and how it is described in this poem - yes in a specific place, it seems.
dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 06:34 am
come away = leave your normal life and enter the dream/fantasy world of the poem.
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contrex
 
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Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 12:57 pm
@aidan,
aidan wrote:
Very beautiful Oristar - who wrote it?


It's "The Stolen Child" by W.B.Yeats.

"Come away" is a slightly old fashioned phrase that means "run away [from your present life] with me". A man urging a woman to elope with him might say "Come away with me".

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oristarA
 
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Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 09:42 pm
Thank you both
aidan
 
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Reply Tue 7 Dec, 2010 12:43 am
@oristarA,
Thank you both as well. Oristar for posting the poem and Contrex for identifying it for me.
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