Can anyone help me with the analysis of James Merrill's poem "Scenes of Childhood"? ?

Question

Here is a link to the poem:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=17607

Answer 1

It is a long poem of 15stanzas, with each each stanza of 8 lines.

One needs to read this poem with attention, because not only it describes the poet's scenes of childhood in a vivid way but the poem starts philosophising at the end. And believe me it not easy at all to follow like in Tintern abby of Wordsworth.

Observe and read carefull the last stanza of the poem :

Of night. Immensely still

The heavens glisten. One broad

Path of vague stars is floating

Off, a shed skin

Of all whose fine cold eyes

First told us, locked in ours:

You are the heroes without name

Or origin.

See the beautiful and vivid description and yet something totally new , without name of origin !