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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Childe Harold analysis

Could someone help me interpret these two parts of the poem because I got some idea of it but I'm not sure.



My task is done, my song hath cease, my theme



Has died into an echo; it is fit

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The spell should break of this protracted dream.



The torch shall be extinguished with hath lit



My midnight lamp – and what is writ, is writ;



Would it were worthier! but I am not now



That which I have been – and my visions flit

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Less palpably before me – and the glow



Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, fain, and low.


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Farewell! a word that must e, and hath been –



A sound which makes us linger; – yet – farewell!



Ye! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene

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Which is his last, if in your memories dwell



A thought which once was his, if on ye swell



A single recollection, not in vain



He wore his sandal shoon and scallop shell;



Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain,

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If such there were – with you, the moral of his strain.
  
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