Question by Nick Named: interpret this poem written by Russian romantic, Mikhail Lermontov– read details for poem…?
By a cliff golden cloud once lingered;
On his breast it slept, but, rising early,
Off it gently rushed across the pearly
Blue of sky, a tiny thing and winged.
Still, a trace it left upon the stony
Giant’s heart, and plunged in thought and weeping
Slow and tortured tears, he stands there, keeping
Vigil o’ver the gloomy waste and lonely.
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Answer by Rebecca A
Sounds to me like he is lamenting over a love lost. A love that was too brief. A woman that stole his heart. She either left him or more likely, died young.
He is now so overcome with grief that there is barely anything else he can think about or do.
I think this is a wonderfully romantic poem and I am so glad that you posted it! I have never read it before.
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