Fragment: Home
Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys, The least of which wronged Memory ever makes Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys, The least of which wronged Memory ever makes Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.
Directly addressing a lost home, the speaker aches with the recognition that our happiest early memories often become our most painful ones. That “scene of earliest hopes and joys” should be a comfort, yet Shelley shows how memory, once it’s been bruised by disappointment or grief, can twist even…
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