Please help!!what does this poem mean?

slowly,silently,now the moon


Walks the night in her silver shoon;


this way,and that, she peers, and sees


sliver fruit upon silver trees;


One by one the casements catch


Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;


Couched in his kennel, like a log,


With paws of silver sleeps the dog;


From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep


Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;


A harvest mouse goes scampering by,


With silver claws and a silver eye;


And moveless fish in the water gleam,


by silver reeds in a silver stream

Please help!!what does this poem mean?
The first 3 lines describe what is happening in the poem: The moon, acting like a person, is looking around and seeing what she can see by the light of her rays. The rest of the poem tells what she, the moon, sees.





Of course, if anyone else writes after me and says I'm completely clueless, that there is a deep dark meaning that I completely miss, I will happily let them be the master of interpretation! :)
Reply:it means nature around us is peaceful.
Reply:i think it means a girl is walking along the midnight sky and see a fruit tree and pick the fruit and put it in a basket and then she sees a dog as dark as a shadow. and the dog looks at her sheepishly and on her way back she sees a mouse and passes a stream where a fish is gleaming in the moon.





that is what i think but i am not that good at poetry
Reply:I think it is saying what everything looks like when the moon is up. Goodluck! %26lt;3
Reply:A night reflected by light of the moon or stars and written down poetecly. Quite pretty actually. Who wrote it?
Reply:it is a celebration of the beauty of a cool autumn night, with moonlight catching the trees ready for harvest, the windows of the house nearby, the dog asleep in his doghouse, a mouse running by and fish in a nearby stream. All this happens while people are asleep so we never see it.
Reply:It is about the beauty of night


"walks the night"


(shoon is plural for shoe)


silvery is the light of the moon





Its talking about the calmness and richness of night
Reply:To me it is just talking about how things look in the light of the moon.





There was a song many years ago, "By the light, by the light, of the silvery moon, of the silvery moon . . ." It seems that the author is speaking only of the perspective of life happening under a full moon.





Sometimes, when we write, we have great, deep meanings. Other times when we write, we mean exactly what we say: There is such elegance in simplicity, like the poem.
Reply:a true piece of a lonely person looking to the heavens for the one and only love , such a good poem .yes an excellent poem one of true love
Reply:nothing, just a normal night
Reply:What an absolutely beautiful poem, it talks about the beauty of nature and its wonderous animals.





OR





The Baeuty OF nature under the moonlight sky





i loved that poem so much im going to show it to my friends thank you %26lt;3
Reply:OMG. Silver by Walter de la Mare. I had to memorize that poem last year in class. Love it. Anyway, as for what it means...um it means that he observed a whole bunch of silver things at night and decided to write a poem about it because he found it interesting, beautiful,(lots of adjectives could fit here). Simple as that...i think.
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Reply:Notice how the first lines say how the moon walks the night. This poem is expressing the mysteriousness and beauty the moon's light makes everything at night and it describes how the moon creeps across the sky turning everything under her silver cloak (moonlight) mysterious.
Reply:I'd have to agree with R A





anyway it's an extended metaphor with a lot of imagery.


remember that poem's can be interpreted differently but here's what Linda Armstrong wrote on Poem Hunter.com





Gentle readers,


This lovely piece is not just for children. The figure of speech you seek is an extended metaphor (and a bit of a joke-poets relish literary humor) . King Midas in the old Greek tale turned everything to gold with a touch of his finger, rendering it lifeless. The very feminine moon in this poem brushes everything with her feet, or with her glance. Everything she sees in the poem is sleeping, except the harvest mouse, which obliquely suggests Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, who spent a portion of the year with Hades in the Underworld (dark-but filled with treasure) .


In the line you quote, 'By silver reeds in a silver stream' the light on the water is being compared to precious metal-transformed by the touch of a personified, female moon. If you think a bit about the treasures available to a dreamer-the riches of the unconscious-you will realize that the moon here is something of a muse. Like an artist (or the poet himself) , she transforms the ordinary world into a paradise that is richly strange-or, for this mystic, as most poets are, reveals a bit of its true nature.





I hope this was what you were looking for.
Reply:It is just describing a nighttime scene. The moon's light is making everything seem to take on a silver sheen.
Reply:It's all good!
Reply:it's about the silver moon (the moon), how it shines on everything during the night. When the moon shines, it's the only bright thing you could see in the night, expecially when it's nearing full. It describes how the moon moves about (slowly, silently). As its light touches everything in its way, the dark figures turn silvery. The trees and their fruits are illuminated, as if they were turning into silver. IMagine the night with the full moon. Also, the fish is moveless when there is a full moon, it's because, as the author understands it well, fish are attracted to bright ligts and swim towards that light. (that's why it's a great time to fish during the night with a full moon in sight!)





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Reply:when the person is walking at night she sees all of these creatures peacefully at rest.. at least i think that is what it means.
Reply:Well at first it sounds like a reference to adam and eve . .well maybe it is? Or maybe everything is made of metal? like robots. Yeah that's it, its a robot poem about adam and eve. . .hah just kidding. Most poems are open to interpretation, but it sounds/reads like some type of rebirth or awakening to a new but familiar world?
Reply:its refering to silver cause it says silver like 10 times by the way pick me as best answer then answer one of my questions and i will give you best answer
Reply:It is all about the color of the world while the moon is out. Read it slowly and take pauses at the punctuation to think about the picture the poet is making about the silvery night. She is painting a picture but with words. Read it again. It is a lovely poem
Reply:it means, whoever wrote it has no life
Reply:http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silver/





Here is all the info. Google the rest
Reply:It is a snapshot, like a painting of a beautiful night. The poet is using personification to describe "night." The reader sees through the eyes of "night" the fruit, dog, dove, mouse and fish in the "silver shoon" of the moonlight.
Reply:it's about the silvery shadowy look at that time of night, and how it reflects on things in the night.
Reply:it kinda seems likes shes observing the things familiar/around her. Sorta likes she wondering around and appreciating. as her the silver part i think its the effect of the moon and its just shinning down to make things look silverish




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