What is the meaning of this poem? How would you describe it?

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time.


Who countest the steps of the Sun:


Seeking after that sweet golden clime


Where the travellers journey is done





Where the Youth pined away with desire,


And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:


Arise from their graves and aspire,


Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

What is the meaning of this poem? How would you describe it?
i picture a little kid when i read this. Its like a parent is thinking of thier child. Weary of time coudl mean that the kid isnt aware that time is passing as all kids do. They're easily distracted.


Eh, the rest could mean their childs desires for the future... like when you ask your kid what they want to be...





Thats what i pictured. An akward poem tho.
Reply:natural image of the sunflower to represented as a man yearning for the eternal and enthusiasm for the future. The virgin winter(Virgin shrouded in snow:/Arise from their graves and aspire,/Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.), the seed riseing from the dead towards the sun.its eagerness of spring and the weariness when all sunflowers fall short of the glory of the sun. But there is hope as we watch each season new sunflowers bloom doomed and blessed by their desires..
Reply:The sunflower may be used by the author as an interpretation of man trying to satisfy his desires in life. The Sun is the symbol for unreached dreams, and that the sunflower (man) "counts the steps of the sun" seeking for betterment to where his journey would end. Man like the sunflower is "pined away with desire" to follow the sun, but soon becomes "shrouded in snow." But there is still hope for the sunflower for he is to arise from his grave at spring time and aspire to wherever he may wish to go.
Reply:Its about a sunflower{a person for example}


being free and going everywhere it wishes to go
Reply:i dunno..i'm just gonna say it don't make sense. i give up and don't feel like reading into it anymore.
Reply:a sunflower growing (duh) uninteresting............srry
Reply:How fantastic sunflowers are
Reply:i think its talking about a person but im not sure what its trying to say.
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Reply:i guess your lover, or sunflowers is always good.
Reply:It's talking about Heaven at first, then a woman of beauty who is a virgin and a vampire (since she's pale) and it's the cemetery she wants to go to.
Reply:It is apparently about Heaven. And the futility of life on earth, which does not often satisfy aspirations, during a lifespan.


(Which is so short, after all-----not a chance of being long enough to get it all done. You can only hope to do SOME things.) The poem is a lot like "Ole man river," which jes' keeps rolling along. While all else is soon forgotten.