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Song: To Celia Summary & Study Guide Description
Song: To Celia Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Song: To Celia Summary and Analysis
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Lines 1-4
The speaker in “Song: To Celia” opens with a plea for his lady to express her love by gazing upon him. His plea is assertive, in the form of a command to drink to him with her eyes. He wants more than an expression of her love, however; he wants a pledge. He notes this in the second line when he declares that he will return the pledge with his own eyes. The reference to the cup that is commonly filled with wine becomes an apt metaphor for what he is asking from his lady. One usually makes a toast, a pledge of some sort, when first sipping a cup of wine. The speaker wants his lady to make a pledge to him with her eyes rather than while drinking from a cup of wine. This pledge would be more personal and so more meaningful to him.
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