Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory –
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
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Who wrote the poem "Music, When Soft Voices Die"?
Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. His literary reputation steadily grew after his death, and he greatly influenced subsequent poets such as Browing, Hardy, and Yeats. He had suffered from family crises, ill health, and a backlash against his atheism and radical political views. His second wife, Mary Shelley, was the author of "Frankenstein." He died at the age of 29 in a boating accident.
"Music, When Soft Voices Die" explanation
In the poem, the speaker cherishes the
power of memories associated with various experiences such as music and scents.
This short poem (or perhaps a poetic fragment to be reworked later) was written
in 1821, but published in 1824 (two years after the poet’s unexpected death) by
his wife. T. S. Elliot praised the poem for having ‘a beauty of music and a
beauty of content.’
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