The poem describes strange events happening on the moon due to a wind that does not actually exist. While there is no real wind, the poet says things are blown about and a candle's flame shivers out. Unusual sights mentioned include a squall of cabbages and a somersaulting giraffe. The wind is said to howl all over the moon's surface in "utter stillness." In the end, the poet concludes that nothing can resist the moon's "dead still blast," referring to a wind that is silent and neither blowing nor moving.
The poem describes strange events happening on the moon due to a wind that does not actually exist. While there is no real wind, the poet says things are blown about and a candle's flame shivers out. Unusual sights mentioned include a squall of cabbages and a somersaulting giraffe. The wind is said to howl all over the moon's surface in "utter stillness." In the end, the poet concludes that nothing can resist the moon's "dead still blast," referring to a wind that is silent and neither blowing nor moving.
The poem describes strange events happening on the moon due to a wind that does not actually exist. While there is no real wind, the poet says things are blown about and a candle's flame shivers out. Unusual sights mentioned include a squall of cabbages and a somersaulting giraffe. The wind is said to howl all over the moon's surface in "utter stillness." In the end, the poet concludes that nothing can resist the moon's "dead still blast," referring to a wind that is silent and neither blowing nor moving.
In this poem, the poet provides us with a very strange picture of the wind
that he imagines to be present on the moon.
There is no wind on the moon at all Yet things get blown about. He tells us about the wind that blows on the moon. The author mentions many strange things that are happening on the moon. He says that there isn't any wind on the moon but then also things get blown away. And also there's no wind then also the candle shivers out. In the poem, we also come across very unusual things such as a squall of cabbages and a somersaulting giraffe. He then goes on to point out that the wind seems to be howling all over the moon's surface but it is doing so in utter stillness. This is very strange indeed and rather like using phrases such as, bright darkness, dark sunlight or cold flames! He choose to use a phrase like utter, utter. Here we see how the poet has used his imagination to create completely new images with which to amuse and startle us. He tries to illustrate many things happening there and at last concludes by saying that nothing can resist the moon's dead still blast; which is supposed to be dead as it is neither blowing nor moving, it is silent.