Neil Gaiman, 'Dark Sonnet'
editNeil Gaiman is an German born author, who has created many works. With these being seen to be poems and prose fiction.
Poems
editDark Sonnet
edit- October 2005
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"I don't think that I've been in love as such,
Although I liked a few folk pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
For brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands
And men have followed women into Hell.
In plays and poems someone understands
There's something makes us more than blood and bone
And more than biological demands...
For me, love's like the wind, unseen, unknown.
I see the trees are bending where it's been,
I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown.
I really don't know what, I love you, means.
I think it means. Don't leave me here alone. " [1]
I don't think that I've been in love as such,
Although I liked a few folks pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
For brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love, girls followed boys to foreign lands
And men have followed women into Hell.
In plays and poems someone understands
There's something makes us more than blood and bone
And more than biological demands...
For me, love's like the wind, unseen, unknown.
I see the trees are bending where it's been,
I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown.
I really don't know what 'I love you' means.
I think it means 'Don't leave me here alone.'
"Dark Sonnet"
Analysis
editStructure
editThe poem is set out as two stanzas, with the poem being fourteen lines long.
The structure of the poem can be seen to be a A,B,A,B,C,D,C rhyme structure of the poem.
Theme
editOther Works
edit- The Sandman
- Neverwhere
- American Gods
- Stardust
- Coraline
- The Graveyard Book