Commentary on Three Lunulae, Truro Museum

Three Lunulae, Truro Museum is a song written by Penelope hiss and it is written with the perspective of a person who visits a museum and views the Lunulae. The visitor, upon first see the Lunulae begins to imagine their history. The gender of the viewer is unknown nevertheless it bes to be a woman, given the gentle and delicate way of writing, shown through the first stanza specie so thin, entirely an gray-haired woman would come across its weight. The poem consists of 14 stanzas but varies in length likely contributing to a shift in mood and tone of the poem.The poem begins with the description of the Lunulae as soon as the visitor walks in where they comment on the flamboyant on the Lunulae and that it was so thin only an old woman would nonice it, creating imagery in our mind about how fine and delicate the Lunulae is and therefore, adding to the loudspeakers trance towards the object. This description continues in the second stanza where she compares the gold to cr escent moons that came out of the recessed district of the dark. This comparison probably tells us how the Lunulae were found later the archaeologists dug it out of the ground.This gets the poet to start describing the ornaments and how the women of the Bronze Age threw no fierce shadows which seems like a connection with the Bronze age and how it may get hold of been a time of violence. The reference to freeze in stanza five and overwinter pass along ins to a seasonal recurrence where spring probably represents the late people and that winter symbolizes doom, old age and momentually death. Contrasting to this description, the poet uses a lot of delicate and gentle sounds such as moon, women and mood to probably ease out the process, nearly as if it was a cyclic movement.When the speaker describes these ornaments, its as though time stands still while she is beguiled by the ornaments but the mention of the slight quick tap of a clock (stanza 6), the reader is reminded tha t time still exists and that it waits for no one. This idea is back up by the previous mentions of the moon and the women of the Bronze Age where the speaker describes the event almost as if she were back in time with them and that it stood still when she communicate about it.In stanza 5, the reference to insects legs is quite an odd simile to use but it conveys the fact that the clocks hand, is like and insects leg, quiet and unseen, almost as if it goes on unspoken till we meet our end, or when it is winter. The next few lines only add to the intrigue of the speaker towards the object where she tries to see what others could not see. She wants to go beyond the three womens faces and actually understand the story rotter the Lunulae. The reference to the word sickle shapes along with insects legs and thin gold be of declension show the delicate and fragile imagery with a link to nature.In stanza 9, there is a possible connection to stanza 3 and in this stanza, the women seem to be appearing in front of the speaker, almost in a ghost like form with a face like a frost fern. The description here is truly dark and aggressive. The Light twists in a flushed retching and this shows the manner in which the women are manifesting themselves. In business to what was said earlier in stanza three, it seems now that these women did have a violent gone. The dusty snakes which are used to describe the women implies that they are very old and possess a sly character.Towards the end, the readers understand that the custodian is about to destination the museum and this intriguing story behind the Lunulae is about to come to an end. The speaker mustiness leave as they are closing. The speakers friend waits there to buy him a postcard and they both step outside where there are autumn leaves. This reference to the autumn leaves touches up upon the previous mentions of seasons, time and how life is almost like a cyclic movement pre planned and inevitable.The poet tries t o convey to us that all single thing has its own story, its own identity and that every thing we do in life connects us to events in the past and the future. This poem conveys the importance of time and how it is destructive in nature where at one point, everything seems fine but after a while, things tend to fall apart and ugly truths begin to reveal themselves. It teaches us that the mind is very fragile and gullible but explains to us that what is shown on the surface is not always the truth.