To a Segar

By Samuel Low

SWEET antidote to sorrow, toil and strife,

Charm against discontent and wrinkled care.
Who knows thy power can never know despair;
Who knows thee not, one solace lacks of life:
When cares oppress, or when the busy day
Gives place to tranquil eve, a single puff
Can drive even want and lassitude away,
And give a mourner happiness enough.
From thee when curling clouds of incense rise,
They hide each evil that in prospect lies;
But when in evanescence fades thy smoke,
Ah! what, dear sedative, my cares shall smother?
If thou evaporate, the charm is broke,
Till I, departing taper, light another.

ASKING MORE QUESTION

Who is Samuel Low?

Samuel Low was an American poet who created poetry to fresh he also wrote several other
poems and made books including volume poems 2 of which were The Politician Out-Witted,
very little information about him.
Why he made poetry “to a Segar”?
He made the poem to express feelings when smoking and miraculously a cigar
Establishing Basic Meaning
In the poem entitled to a Segar, Samuel Low's work refers to the word "Segar" itself where the
fresh word in this poem is another word of cigar or cigarette where this poem tells about the
benefits of smoking for those who suck it.
Samuel Low here also describes the charm of a cigarette by using the word supposition to
express the nature of cigarettes.

Probing the less obvious

 In stanza 5, when cares oppress, or when the busy day, the word cares about oppress is to
describe the anxiety in the heart but not conveyed.

 In stanza 9, from thee when curling clouds of incense rise, the word clouds can be
replaced with smoke rising up because the rising smoke has similar shapes with clouds.

Structure and Meaning

In this poem it describes the cigarette as a savior of the sense of negativity that exists

 Gives place to tranquil eve, a single puff, can be found the word "puff" which means blowing
which leads to a cigarette being sucked and then express it with various figurative words
 but when in evanescence fades thy smoke, referring to smoking activities whose result is
smoke, which then causes a negative or positive effect

Structure and imagery

Samuel Low uses the first person point of view to describe an object that is cigarettes that has an impact
on the first person, it is also described as worshiping the cigarette as a way to eliminate all existing
stresses and problems.