Concetti Chiave
- John Dryden's ode celebrates Saint Cecilia, the patron of music, highlighting music's divine and harmonious origins.
- The poem suggests that music has the power to evoke every passion and emotion, influencing both nature and human feelings.
- Various instruments are depicted with unique emotional impacts, from the thrilling trumpet to the mournful flute and passionate violin.
- Music is portrayed as a divine force, with Orpheus calming beasts and Cecilia's music being mistaken for heavenly sounds by an angel.
- The poem concludes with the idea that music will be present at the end of time, signaling the resurrection of the dead and the transition of the living.
“Song for Saint Cecilia’s day” is an ode written by John Dryden for Saint Cecilia, patron of music. In these following lines we make a short abstract of it.
In this poem Dryden says that world was created from harmony and music by God: a voice was heard from the sky and told nature it was time to arise. Then cold, hot, moist and dry started to form every creature. Music can arise every passion and feeling. Also when Jubal played, his brother used to stay to worship the celestial sound.
The trumpet’s sound excites us and gives us a wonderful shrill, and the beat of the thundering drum seems to say: “Here there’s your enemy! Charge! Charge!”
The sad flute has dying notes and shares the woes of hopeless lovers.
The violin has desperation and passion in its notes. And what about the organ, that inspires holy love and whose notes seems to fly in the air?
Orpheus could make every wild beast quiet and peaceful with his music, and when Cecilia played, an angel heard her and mistook earth for heaven.
When the last hour will come, destroying everything, the trumpet will be heard, the dead men will come alive again, and those who are alive will die. And music will invade the sky.
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