The Desert

Description

Mathilde Blind was an English poet of German origins. While she wrote poetry as well as prose during the late 19th century, she didn’t gain much popularity then. It is only more recently that scholars have discovered this marvelous poet and praised her for her keen sense of social justice and her ability to express emotions as well as profound intellectual ideas with ease.

The Desert is a newly discovered poem that has attracted the attention of many literary critics as wells poetry aficionados. The poem seems to explore the vastness of the desert as well as its origin, properties as well as its ability to preserve time relics yet hide traced of every single man.

While the desert is eternal just as the sea, it is unmovable and sterile. Yet, it is stable, and a witness to all events that have passed. Whether the desert was left without any life by nature or it once had children running among flowers and lively homes, it is now deserted. Only foxes live here, diving in their sand holes, and eagles preying on creatures that have succumbed to the desert.

There is nothing to behold in the vastness of the desert, but the guardian Blue sky. There are no traces to be seen, no humans and no homes, yet, in the sun-heated sand, a statue remains. Perhaps it was carved by man, a testament of an old civilization, and then the desert continued the work?

The poem was most likely inspired by her travels in Egypt, where she fell in love with nature as well as antiquity. Yet the poem is probably less about the Sphinx, and more about the immortality of a place that cannot hold life, as well as the admiration for nature which can be beautiful, if sterile.
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