LEISURE BY W.H. DAVIES

No time to see ---------- skies at night.

REFERENCE

(i)Poem: Leisure                                                                                 

(ii) Poet: William Henry Davies

CONTEXT
(i) Occurrence: Lines 7-8/14
(ii) Content: In this poem the poet laments that modern man has drowned so much in the ocean of temporal charms that he has no time to see and enjoy the Nature like trees, animals, streams and Beauty. He concludes that such a sorrowful life is a poor life.

EXPLANATION

      In these lines the poet says that modern man has ceased to be imaginative and the reason is "lack of time". He is so busy in his worldly pursuits that he has no time to observe the beauty of streams. He cannot understand how does the natural light of sun fall on the running water of the hilly streams. He cannot perceive how does this quickly flowing water strike against the pebbles and thus reflect a twinkling light like that of the stars shinning at night in the sky. In short, he cannot notice that these gushing streams are the "galaxies of earth".

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies.

                                                                                    (Lord Byron)
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