The Castle Of Beauty Comments

I love your character of the Poet-Seer, a blending of the artist and the wise man. He has the passion of the man of words and music and the gravitas of the man of knowledge and wisdom. It's rare to find both characteristics in the same figure. At least at the same time - the poet may age into the seer, but he will then lack the poet's youthful charm. Well, I read this poem quickly the first time and then slowed down for a second reading. The poet's journey to the castle gave me a sense of apprehension: What if the apparition is a lure to destruction? What if the lovely fairy is a disguised demon? What if the Castle is a ruin? (That last possibility is the climax of Robert Browning's WHEN CHILDE HAROLD TO THE DARK TOWER CAME!) My apprehension was at its most intense when the Poet-Seer sleeps when he is almost at the end of his journey. But wonder of wonders, the Castle is real and your prose comment suggests it is a Castle of Wisdom with a wise goddess rather than the alluring figure of the lovely fairy who will initiate him.