The poem, while making an attempt to persuade the young lady not to ignore him or his love, also incidentally highlights the transient nature of beauty as against the permanence of love. How does the poem bring out the transient nature of beauty as against the permanence of love? While many suitors loved her beauty and elegance, he alone loved her pilgrim soul as well as the sorrows of her changing face. The phrase ‘how many’ in the first line (second stanza) stands in contrast to ‘But one man’, in the third line (second stanza). He says that he loved her inner beauty and even the fading away of her youth and beauty. While she is thus engaged in recalling her past, the poet reminds her that though she undoubtedly had a great many suitors who admired her beauty and elegance and professed ‘love’ which may be true or false, he alone loved her unconditionally. Then he asks her to read from her book of memories and reminisce her past when she was in her prime youth. The narrator/speaker asks his lady love to presume that she has grown old and grey and is sitting by the fire nodding. How does the speaker distinguish/contrast his love from/with that of the others? How is the ‘one-man’ different from the many others who loved the lady? (b) the fleeing of her lover to the mountains. the fleeing of her lover to the mountains When she grows old her face will get shrunk and will look different.ī. It suggests that her youth and beauty will fade away. What does the phrase ‘your changing face’ suggest? the woman that he has admired in his life. Sad irons, circa 1900, featured an asbestos lining, under a removable hood that fitted over the heated “core,” and prevented heat from traveling up into the handle and burning the hand of the user.C. Wooden handles would stay cool while the metal bases were heated. They were heated on an open fire or a stove, and their metal handles had to be gripped with a thick potholder, rag, or gloves while ironing.ĭetachable wooden handles were added later to sad irons in place of the soldered metal handles. The base of a sad iron is triangular shaped with a pointed tip to make it is easy to iron around buttons. The heft of a sad iron would proportionally effect the amount of heat held in the iron, and consequently how well the fabric would be pressed flat. ‘Sad’ is an Old English word for “solid,” and the term “sad iron” is used to distinguish heavy flat irons, usually weighing 5 to 9 pounds. The forebears to modern electric irons, flat irons or smoothing irons, later modified into what is more commonly known as ‘sad irons,’ were constructed by blacksmiths in the Middle Ages.
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