How would you interpret this passage?

38. In the Gold Room: a Harmony


(poem by Oscar Wilde)








HER ivory hands on the ivory keys


Strayed in a fitful fantasy,


Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees


Rustle their pale leaves listlessly,


Or the drifting foam of a restless sea 5


When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.





Her gold hair fell on the wall of gold


Like the delicate gossamer tangles spun


On the burnished disk of the marigold,


Or the sun-flower turning to meet the sun 10


When the gloom of the jealous night is done,


And the spear of the lily is aureoled.





And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine


Burned like the ruby fire set


In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, 15


Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,


Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet


With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

How would you interpret this passage?
I love Oscar Wilde, he is not just some wierd *** author, first of all. He loves this woman so much he compares her to god's other creations and he cant just choose one. He loves watching her play the piano, he thinks her hand are very graceful, he loves the waves and color of her hair and the color of her lips and of course kissing them. Oh, to be loved by such a man, she must have been very beautiful.
Reply:She is good at playing the piano and is a beautiful blonde with pretty red lips..that it!!
Reply:chick plays piano, weird-a$$ author making an analogy of that to w/e he said in first section....





her hair is long.....like some flowers and/ or vines....again with the analogies.....





lips analogy..........kissing.....





pretty much it


well obviously this guy likes nature, considering all the fruity analogies with nature.
Reply:It uses a lot of visual references to make comparisons.





Mr. Wilde is describing vividly beautiful sights, and comparing them with a lady he loves. The number of colors and images in the poem, are meant to project the images to the reader's mind.





The poem seems to suggest, that the woman it mentions, is as great to the author as those pleasant images.





I think Oscar is just explaining his love for a woman through the use of beautiful imagery.
Reply:The first stanza describes her piano playing as the wild rustling of nature,


The second describes her hair as the sharpest brightest gold


and the third describes kissing her, warm, wet, and red



beauty