moments:’in such a night… when’. Everything and nothing happening at oncewhich Shakespeare scene does it recall? the one in The Merchant of Venice when Lorenzo and Jessica talk about the beauty of natureexpression through language: seeking ‘syllables’ to express herself, but can’t quite find themcouplets not quite rhyming:’in such a night, when every louder wind | Is to its cavern safe confin’d’inconstant, fragile nature: clouds ‘thinly veil’ the night sky, the moon is ‘waving’ and the leaves are ‘trembling’masculine shut away:’sunburnt hills’ and ‘swelling haycocks’internal rhymes:’she [Philomel], hollowing clear, directs the wanderer right; | in such a night’freedom and movement:’when odours that declined repelling day | through temp’rate air uninterrupted stray’Milton’s satanic nocturne: Satan prepares Eve to be tempted away from Adam during a nocturnal walk. Night awake to her beauties and the darkness is used to trick Eve and flatter her womanly vanity
‘glow works their trivial beauties show’ – but the light looks great on Sailsbury, her bff
sublime experience: soul at night feels a ‘sedate content’ which leads to an experience ‘beyond language or sense’
feminine knowledge, about experience and breaking down boundaries between self and other
male knowledge:’fierce light’ which ‘disturbs while it reveals’final lines:’in such a night, let me abroad remain | til’ morning breaks, and all’s confused again’boundaries between self and other:’joys in the inferior world, and thinks it like her own’animals free from ‘tyrant-man’horse ‘loosed’, sheep ‘at large’, kine ‘unmolestedcompanionship:’we hear’, ‘we fear’ ONA NOCTURNAL REVERIE, ANNE FINCH SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUFOR ONLY$13. 90/PAGEOrder Now