Great Regulars: Shakespeare's song begins with the image

of Orpheus charming the trees and even the snowy mountains with his strumming lute. All of nature bows in stately homage. The image may remind us of Adam in the Garden of Eden naming the animals--or Aslan breathing Narnia into being in C. S. Lewis's fantasy novel, The Magician's Nephew.

In the same way that "plants" and "flowers" have always "sprung" to the poet's music, so the "sun and showers" lead to a "lasting spring." The realm of Orpheus is one of perpetual life, possibility, and growth. Poetry is as natural as light itself.

from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'Orpheus with his Lute' by Shakespeare

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