The Greater Cats - “The Greater Cats”
“The Greater Cats” exemplify ferocious savagery for they “mate as fiercely as they kill,/To roam, to live, to drink their fill.” The cats’ survival is based on vicious antagonism that is a basis of death for the feebler ones.
Love - “The Greater Cats”
Love is an emblem of blatant fugitiveness. Vita Sackville-West asserts, “Man's love is transient as his death is long.” Love and existence are analogous due to their incontrovertible temporariness.
Lion - “The Greater Cats"
The speaker pronounces, “Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally:/I am a lion, a stone, a tree.” The lion incarnates the speaker’s unceasing steadfastness that would persist all through his existence.
Full Moon - “Full Moon”
The full moon incarnates unqualified contentment: “But she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,/And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran./She cared not a rap for all the big planets./ For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,/But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,/And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.” The she’s amusing running is attributed to the ampleness of the moon and not the prime planets that border the moon. The moonlight offers agreeable radiance for the she to traverse her environs. If the full moon were lacking the she would not have enchanted herself unrestrictedly.
Narcissus - "Bee-Master"
Narcissus is an allegory of narcissism for it bears semblance to the renowned “Narcissus Mythology’. Vita Sackville-West observes, “Narcissus bares his nectarous perianth.” The revealing of the ‘nectarious perianth’ is an egoistic repositioning that is intended to decoy the bees so that they can oblige to Narcissus’ conceited yearnings.
