2. summary
when the poet set out for Lyonnesse it was winter
season the foliage of the trees was covered with
frost he had to travel very far. The place was
hundred miles away
2. No prophet or the wisest wizard could guess what
experience the poet would have at Lyonnesse . He
himself couldn’t predict his future.
3. When the poet returned from Lyonnesse his eyes
were bright with happiness. It was as if he had
experienced a revelation of life.everyone silently
noticed that the poet’s happiness was of a rare
quality and which cannot be mesured.
1.
3. When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my
lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
4. LYONNESSE : THE MYTHICAL
BIRTH PLACE OF SIR TRISTRAM,
IN ENGLAND ,BELIVED TO HAVE
BEEN SUBMERGED BY THE SEA
;HERE AN IMAGINARY PLACE
Rime :frost
The spray : leaves and branches of
trees ;foliage
7. When I came back from
Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and
fathomless,
When I came back from
Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!
8. Mute : Unable to speak
Surmise : guess
Radiance : glow
Fathomless : deep
