Fragment: the Sepulchre of Memory
The speaker asks whether truth is found on tombs and likens their heart to a tomb where the addressee’s dead memory has remained buried and unchanged since childhood.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Elegiac Poetry · 44 words
First lines
And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee / Has been my heart-and thy dead memory / Has lain from childhood, many a changeful year, / Unchangingly preserved and buried there.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Four lines express the speaker’s private feeling through a direct address and a comparison of the heart to a tomb.
- Elegiac Poetry — The speaker describes a memory as dead and buried, giving remembrance the language of mourning.
Tags
memory · childhood · truth · tombs · poetic fragment
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Elegiac Poetry
- Length: 44 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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