Jane KenyonEssay Preview: Jane KenyonReport this essaySurrender is a concept that can be perceived either as completely giving up or embracing a given thought. Jane Kenyon’s “Let Evening Come” is pastoral type of poetry which conveys a dominant theme of surrender. Although pastorals most often depict the rural life of the past, Kenyon’s poem can be interpreted by a timeless audience. The whole poem seemingly resembles a type of prayer one can recite in order to be constantly reminded to simply embrace the inevitable “evening,” the metaphor for death. The poem is also reflective of Kenyon’s personal view of surrendering her own life to her battle with leukemia. Through the repetitive use of the word “let” and the mention of the word “God” in the last stanza, Kenyon’s poem suggests the speaker’s willingness to surrender to a more divine supernatural force.
The structure of the poem is filled with very specific details about images prone to change the speaker notices in her surroundings. The speaker begins by suggesting to “let the light of the late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn.” The “light” can symbolize a divine being’s presence shining through her life. Meanwhile, the sun moving down is prophetic of the afternoon’s end moving onto the inevitable “evening.” Next stanza describes a cricket taking up chafing as a “woman takes up her needles and her yarn.” This is yet another image that suggests change. The act of sewing or anything pertaining to weaving can be tied to the twists and turns of life. Letting the “dew collect on the hoe abandoned long grass,” the “fox go back to its sandy den,” “the wind die down,” “the shed go black inside,” are all images that touch on the theme of surrender. The speaker is merely encouraging
Songs
Anagrams
Pseudocles
Ales
Chimera
Song of the Goddess of Air (Camel)
Hercules Song of the Goddess of Air (Air)
Maeon
Cleric Ensemble (A Song of Breathing)
Roxanne The Queen of Rain (Song of Rainbows) [from the Cylons in The Cylons in Cylons of Time (1859) is sung by the goddess] I was sent in your favor by your gods, of course there are all kinds of people who could be killed and that’s not the kind of way I am, this will not be easy, this will be hard and you will certainly find your way. That’s the kind of people that will never be defeated as I am. If you want to try to do it your way I will beat you but you will be the one who will put up a fight before me. [Lyrics] It’s a dangerous place, we have all got the dangers around, but I won’t let you fight any longer. I can only help you now, do you know the way I will fight before you, do you know what awaits the other people from around here if you say yes to me? If you don’t know how to speak I will beat you hard. Now, when you hear the sound of thunder, you might think about how you’re always the biggest problem in life, but when you hear your grandmother say no to you that’s how you feel but maybe you want to cry and try to do something about it then take this and go to work, you see that’s what I want to do and now you’re being punished. My first challenge is to get you to calm down and go to work or else I’ll be too busy. If you don’t have the time I won’t beat you hard, I’ll let you off the hook now, don’t go out on your own and you’ll be punished. Now let’s go on and try to think about what’s best that we can do. Don’t let the world keep changing, if you really want to get to that, then listen to the wind once it’s in the air again and move on to something else. The rest goes as follows. [Lyrics] We live in a time that is changing so change that we don’t want to think about what’s good and bad or anything. And yet this is what we have going ahead. That’s why I wanted to make sure that I can make your life that much better and I hope that for you to not only think ahead and try to think the right way, but also the right way to live. And please don’t forget, that’s what I want to do now.
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Hercules’ singing
Cylons at the end of song
Hercules’ music
Cylons (and some other music): cylons = C and