Meru Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHGII| Civilisation is hooped together brought | A |
| Under a mle under the semblance of peace | B |
| By manifold illusion but man's life is thought | A |
| And he despite his terror cannot cease | B |
| Ravening through century after century | C |
| Ravening raging and uprooting that he may come | D |
| Into the desolation of reality | C |
| Egypt and Greece good bye and good bye Rome | E |
| Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest | F |
| Caverned in night under the drifted snow | G |
| Or where that snow and winter's dreadful blast | H |
| Beat down upon their naked bodies know | G |
| That day brings round the night that before dawn | I |
| His glory and his monuments are gone | I |
William Butler Yeats
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Bijay Kant Dubey: I do not know what had it been going on in the mind of Yeats when he had been Meru? How the manuscript of it? Certainly he would have been engrossed in the wisdom of the ancient Hindu sages, the Himalayan spaces would engaged him.
Meru, is it not the story of his spiritual ascent and progression? Maybe it the climbing history too would have attracted him then. Civilization is but an illusion. Many a civilization flourished and had its heyday, but where have they led to finally? But it is transcendent meditation which ultimately leads to.
But Meru will last long, as the abode of physical, spiritual and religious centres. We live a life of our own, but the hermits in the Himalayan ranges lying bare-bodied, shivering with cold or beating down the colder nights are lost in the thoughts of their own to add to the human saga of spiritual quest and meditative fulfillment.
What are they for? What is it burning their inward? Where the fire leading unto? A communion with the Mystical Spirit and the Mythical Embodiment? A spiritual thirst, quest fro knowledge taking them to there where no human being like to dwell.
Meru is the myth of mystical vision and spiritual quest which the poet describing it here in this poem; Meru is the story of his spiritual progression, a journey of the self.
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