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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DARK BLOT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere
Last Line: Can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Blindness; Vision; Visually Handicapped
First Line: He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere
Last Line: Can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Blindness; Vision; Visually Handicapped
He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere
he looks thereafter, palpitating on the air
before his eyes, a smudge that will not go away.
So in my days of still-youth, my audacity,
I dared look on the splendor momentarily.
The dark blot on my greedy eyes has come to stay.
Since when, worn like a badge of mourning in the sight
of all around me where my eye may chance to light,
I see the dark smudge settle upon everyone.
Forever thus between my happiness and me?
Alas for us, the eagle only, only he
can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun.
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