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Tue 15 Jun, 2004 12:07 pm
author is unknown...written in summer 2001...
I read this poem and i absolutely love it...the first read it sounded pretty, as I read it more times my (sometimes slow) brain started to see deeper meanings and understand it...but I still don't totally understand it. I am not totally sure what the two shadows are...or if one of them truly exists...any insight as to its interpreation would be greatly appreciated!
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Two shadows holding hands
Forever in darkness they dance
With unopened eyes they could all light surpass
Forever in the comfort of the night they
would last
Two shadows holding hands
One of them questions one night asked
"What is darkness and what is light?"
Where by the other one replied
"How could I know without opening my eyes?"
So no answers in the darkness were revealed
And both of them(darkness)left to have their curiousity healed
Two shadows holding hands
Both of them by lack of knowledge seduced
And into the daylight their eyes were introduced
Two shadows holding hands
With open eyes they no longer could light surpass
And in daylight only one of them would last
Two shadows holding hands
Into one in the daylight they melt
Because only in darkness could their true shape be held
Two shadows by light defeated
One of them by the sun now was eaten
Two shadows holding hands
In the night they once used to dance
But now both by light were surpassed
Wow. After reading that, I completely stand by my opinion of CaptivatedRose's situation. It's almost like I had read this already. The poem is lovely, but I don't see much meaning behind it than unrequited love.
Cav,
I am positive that this poem has nothign to do with CaptivatedRose's situation, which is why I made this in a new thread...it's an unrelated topic, and I didn't want to clutter her message with talk of this.
so what do you think the shadows represent?
Well.. in this sort of style, the shadows reperesent two kindred spirits, not yet united.
With a plea for being as one, not just two shadows.
cav,
how does that work with them merging into one in the daylight? if it were two secret lovers, who werent able to make it in the real world, they would separate...not join
It's the idea of hope, which goes along with most poems of secret love....if the two shadows (both dark, lonely spirits) could merge into one, they would be able to live in the daylight, due to the strength of their love. It's the wish that their love did not have to be secret.
hmm, i disagree...in the poem, the shadows are depicted as living separately and happily together in the dark...and then living sadly as one in the light. you're saying they should be sadly living in the dark, and happily living together in the light.
Two shadows holding hands
Into one in the daylight they melt
Because only in darkness could their true shape be held
Two shadows by light defeated
One of them by the sun now was eaten
Two shadows holding hands
In the night they once used to dance
But now both by light were surpassed
What if we consider the darkness as the author's dreams of perfect unrequited love, perhaps a love that only exists in the darkness of dreams, but in the light, the true reality is exposed: He/she is alone, without their dream love?
Cav, at first glance of your idea I was going to offer another suggestion...but then I realized I was pondering the exact same thing, only in different words.
Cool. Yeah, that idea makes sense to me which brings it back to unrequited love, it seems.
A haunting poem, stuh, but I see the two as spirits reaching toward each other. One is artless; the other quite savvy in the ways of the world. The daylight is a metaphor for insight, which eventually consumes the naive one after the dark realization that innocence is the first to be destroyed in a relationship.
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