The eyes — Summary

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There was something that made me dumbstruck

madness in her eyes or maybe that magic.

Those sinful pair had An innocent glance.

The way they blinked, and rolled and fluttered... Seemed that they talked in her Parlance...

They were drenched with her ecstasy and expressions and smiled in her tone.

Something that drived me into chaos,

Her eyes!

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Everything in this poem circles around one thing: a woman's eyes and the effect they have on the speaker. He starts out simply stunned, "dumbstruck," unable to say whether what he saw was madness or magic. That uncertainty sets the tone early. He can't explain her, only react to her.

The middle of the poem treats her eyes almost like living things. They blink, roll and flutter, and he imagines them speaking in their own "parlance," a language that belongs only to her. They seem to carry her joy and feeling, even smiling in her tone. There's a nice contradiction too: the eyes are "sinful," yet their glance is "innocent," a mix that makes them more tempting and harder to read.

The mood is dazzled and a little overwhelmed. By the end, the speaker admits the eyes have thrown him into "chaos," and the poem closes on a short, breathless exclamation: "Her eyes!" It reads like infatuation caught mid-gasp.

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