Thomas Moore Poetry Analysis

Thomas Moore is a Irish-English Poet, Novelist, Singer and Song-writer of the romantic period. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He wrote epistles, odes, sacred songs, juvenile poems, and an oriental romance. His most famous works are Odes of Anacreon, and the oriental romance Lalla Rookh. Even today, he is known for his Irish Melodies. The son of grocer, he had a humble birth with no godfathers. He studied in grammer school to improve his English and graduated from Trinity College. He started his poetic career in the university where he translated the odes of Anacreon. He published Anacreon when he was in law school. Lord Moria, his patron sent him to Bermuda to the office of the Registrar. He wrote many romantic poems there. He also went

The Bermudians identified Nea as Hester Louisa Tuker a young seventeen year old wife of Moore’s Colleague William Tuker. These odes are termed therefore to be autobiographical. Though Moore never mentioned her in his letters Moore’s address to an officer after her death where he termed as Nea throws light on the situation the Mrs. Tuker might have been Nea. Later, the tucker family also confirmed the fact that all of Moore’s book were banned from the house. In one of his poems ‘The Wedding Ring’ it is implied by George Morgan Moore’s friend that the heroine of the ring was Mrs. Tucker. Moore perhaps thought her to be the most attractive as he said to his daughter Anastasia “ I would not suffer the brightest belle of Bermuda to be my

It takes a different route that the odes nature beings its key themes with literary allusions and is divided into three parts. A Dream of Antiquity has greek allusions and mythical creatures. The first stanza began with the turning of classic pages and going back to the period where love could lure the proudest sage and wisdom can grace the tenderest lover, before the poet laid to sleep he saw a planet week on Ariel’s flood, it is an allusion to the tempest by Shakespeare. The second stanza his heart dreams as he watches the stream smile and the elfin islands and the scene seem to light up with greek sky’s and the air was warm as signs. Here, nature is personified as smiling. The third stanza praises the beauty of Nea comparing her to star – dew to pearls and doves. The forth stanza he describes the night as ‘delicious’ which is common in Greece and when the day recedes all the moonlight is calm and peaceful and was his beloved on whose side he was and through a temple’s gloom and a bowers bloom where beauty and wisdom and lovers and sages reside all was taught to make the dullest love to gain wisdom and the coldest to