(e) With thy clear keen joyance
Languor cannot be:
Shadow of annoyance
Never came near thee:
Thou lovest: but ne’er knew love’s sad satiety.

Ans. The lines have been taken from the beautiful lyric “To a Skylark” by the great Romantic poet P. B. Shelley. Here the poet lauds and praises the pure, unmixed, ethereal song of the bird which never flags. The poet also draws a sharp contrast between human life and the bird’s life that comes out of his oppressed and distressed soul.

The bird feels exquisitely happy while it sings for no languor or fatigue can effect the lark; it is a tireless singer of joyousness. Nor does the Skylark ever experience a feeling of the faintest irritation or annoyance. The Skylark does not experience the disillusionment or disgust which human beings invariably experience after an excessive enjoyment of the pleasures of love, as on earth love undergoes, with the passage of time, insipidity and cloying. The Skylark does enjoy the pleasures of love, but in its case the feeling of disillusionment or disgust does not occur. The distinctive contrast between human love and that of the Skylark is evident here; while the Skylark, being free from the satiety or boredom of love, sips its pleasures fully, the miserable human being only enjoys for the time being and then is destined to have the bitter experience of its bitterness, its surfeit and its feeling of disgust.