Light
Francis William Bourdillan was a British poet and translator. He is
mostly known for his poetry and in particular the single short poem “ The Night has thousand eyes”. This poetry is divided into two stanzas ,
each consisting of four lines as the
title of poem suggests ,it focuses on the theme of Light. This poem is short
but it is very meaningful poem about life. This popularly known a ‘ The Night
has thousand eyes’ published in 1873. Poet compares Day with the human beings.
Analysis
In the very first stanza, the poet uses
personification by comparing eyes with stars. ‘The Night has thousand eyes’ by this line poet wants to says that
the eyes of the night are the stars and the eye of the day is Sun. In the
remaining line , the poet talks about the unavailability of the end to
everything by saying that even the powerful sun has to die by the end of the
day, while the daylight has one ‘The Light of the bright world’ dies with the
dying sun, a symbolic representation of Light
v/s Darkness.
In the second stanza, the Night is no
longer addressed by the human mind is spoken of and the heart is now
personified. The lines ‘ The mind has
thousand eyes, and the heart but one’. The poet shows the fluctuating in
the heart is always adamant and speaks truth, Heart is connected to Love and
emotions. So when your love is lost then your emotions vanish. In the last two
lines the poet talks about the light of the life dying which again is not in
our hand.
Being a very simple poem, it talks about
the mortality associated to everything related to nature. The poet wants to say
that there is nothing in the world is permanent.
‘When your achievements are with you
don’t have their value but after losing it you understand it’s value.’
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