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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.

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