This poem contrasts two perspectives on love through the voices of a clod of clay and a pebble. The clod believes that love seeks to help others rather than itself, and can create happiness even in despair. The pebble sees love as selfishly seeking its own pleasure through controlling others, and creating misery despite happiness. The poem explores the different nature of selfless versus selfish love through the personified voices of the natural objects.
This poem contrasts two perspectives on love through the voices of a clod of clay and a pebble. The clod believes that love seeks to help others rather than itself, and can create happiness even in despair. The pebble sees love as selfishly seeking its own pleasure through controlling others, and creating misery despite happiness. The poem explores the different nature of selfless versus selfish love through the personified voices of the natural objects.
This poem contrasts two perspectives on love through the voices of a clod of clay and a pebble. The clod believes that love seeks to help others rather than itself, and can create happiness even in despair. The pebble sees love as selfishly seeking its own pleasure through controlling others, and creating misery despite happiness. The poem explores the different nature of selfless versus selfish love through the personified voices of the natural objects.
Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'
little Clod of Clay
Trodden with the cattle's feet, So sung a
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
'Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.'
The poem expresses the like and
dislike of love.
Pebble: The love is superficial, Builds a
Hell in Heaven's dispair. Clod: Everyone needs love, Builds a heaven in Hell's despair. Asonanse gived the poem a rhythmic structure. Clodl lump of clay or earth metres meetl appropriate rhymes in. . . despitel in scornful contempt
of
Contrasts of different types of
love, the clod and the pebble, and hell and heaven.