Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Read 'Fire and Sleet and Candlelight' by 'Elinor Wylie' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight by Elinor Wylie
For this you've striven
Daring, to fail:
Your sky is riven
Like a tearing veil.
For this, you've wasted
Wings of your youth;
Divined, and tasted
Bitter springs of truth.
From sand unslakèd
Twisted strong cords,
And wandering naked
Among trysted swords.
There's a word unspoken,
A knot untied.
Whatever is broken
The earth may hide.
The road was jagged
Over sharp stones:
Your body's too ragged
To cover your bones.
The wind scatters
Tears upon dust;
Your soul's in tatters
Where the spears thrust.
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