E40 Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe

Send us Fan MailDescription: An immersive reading of Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe with reflection on sonnets, science, and Greek and Roman mythology. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work:Sonnet—To ScienceBy Edgar Allen PoeScience! true daughter of Old Time thou art!   Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,   Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,   Who wouldst not leave him in his wanderingTo seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,   Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,   And driven the Hamadryad from the woodTo seek a shelter in some happier star?   Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,The Elfin from the green grass, and from meThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?References:Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48625/sonnet-to-science Hirsch, E. (1999). How to read a poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry. HarperCollins. Sonnet: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70051/learning-the-sonnet