DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Premonition" by George Santayana More information about the Poet:   George Santayana The prophet as lover. Vice versa?  This is what I was thinking when I was rereading this poem.  It's not like Marlowe's poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" where the speaker tries to create the world for the love; rather, this poem works more on the general level -- as though the environment should be enough.      The muffled syllables that Nature speaks      Fill us with deeper longing for her word;      She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,      She makes a  sweeter music than is her. The first quatrain has three separate components: the speaker, nature, and the other.  Note how the speaker listens to Nature which "speaks," and creates "music"  but what does this do to the speaker -- "long" as though the sound was missing.  But note the usage of "us" in the ...