Difference
My mind’s a map. A mad sea-captain drew it
Under a flowing moon until he knew it;
Winds with brass trumpets, puffy-cheeked as jugs,
And states bright-patterned like Arabian rugs.
“Here there be tygers.” “Here we buried Jim.”
Here is the strait where eyeless fishes swim
About their buried idol, drowned so cold
He weeps away his eyes in salt and gold.
A country like the dark side of the moon,
A cider-apple country, harsh and boon,
A country savage as a chestnut-rind,
A land of hungry sorcerers.
Your mind?
—Your mind is water through an April night,
A cherry-branch, plume-feathery with its white,
A lavender as fragrant as your words,
A room where Peace and Honor talk like birds,
Sewing bright coins upon the tragic cloth
Of heavy Fate, and Mockery, like a moth,
Flutters and beats about those lovely things.
You are the soul, enchanted with its wings,
The single voice that raises up the dead
To shake the pride of angels.
I have said.
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Who wrote the poem "Difference"?
Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943)
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He was
born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, into a military family. Benét was successful in various literary forms including poems, novels,
short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera. He
won two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, the O. Henry Story Prize, and the Roosevelt
Medal. He died of a heart attack in 1943 at the age of 44.
"Difference" explanation
In the poem, the speaker talks about the
stark difference between ‘my mind’ and ‘your mind.’ ‘My mind’ is full of stormy
confusion whereas ‘your mind’ reflects calm, peaceful, and cozy images. The
poem is about strange tensions and attractions between the lovers due to their
differences.
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