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Wed 11 May, 2005 03:06 pm
A spider danced a cozy jig
Upon a frail trapeze;
And from a far-off clover field
An ant was heard to sneeze.
And kings that day were wise and just,
And stones began to bleed;
A dead man rose to tell a tale,
A bigot changed his creed.
The stable boy forgot his pride,
The queen confessed an itch;
And lo! More wonderful than all,
The poor man blessed the rich.
I think it might be more nonsense than anything else, with some social commentary thrown in.
Pt 1: Just setting the tone, fanciful description of a spider on its web.
Pt 2: A bigot changing his creed is as unlikely as a dead man talking; a wise and just king is as unlikely as bleeding stones. (All are very UNlikely, in other words.)
Pt 3: More "wonderful" (as in full of wonder) things -- commentary there seems to be that stable boys are proud (who knew?), queens would never do something so coarse or lowly as to confess an itch, and certainly a poor man never blessed the rich.
Mostly silliness.
B-low, Welcome to A2K. I would like to add to Soz's observation.
A one line theme:
All this shall come to pass when hell freezes over.
May I suggest that in the future you cite the author of the poem because often it helps to get the meaning.
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