Question

What tone would be best to use when reciting this poem?

dreamy

sad

energetic

reproving

Answer 1

No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of æther;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.
Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness
To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her.
No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,
Soft as spring wind that’s come from birchen bowers.
Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches,
As winter’s wound with her sleight hand she staunches,
Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour:
As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours.

Answer 2

What do you think?

Answer 3

reproving

Answer 4

@inowalst

Answer 5

Does the poem express disapproval?

Answer 6

Its not energetic because he says he will not spoil this happiness by loving another, then goes on to describe his love, the magic surrounding her, and what she has done to him.

Answer 7

so is it sad? @inowalst

Answer 8

Has she done good or bad to him?

Answer 9

good

Answer 10

? @inowalst

Answer 11

it was dreamy, thanks

Answer 12

Good, okay. So "sad" is out.