He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
By: William Butler Yeats
By: Autumn Morrisey
Theme
Imagery
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths" (1)
This describes the narrator's desire to want to give it's lover everything he/she ever wanted.
"I would spread the cloths under your feet" (5)
This expresses that if the narrator had the heavens' cloths, he/she would give it all to his/her love interest.
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" (8)
This shows the narrator's devotion to his/her love interest in the fact that he/she is giving his/her all for the one he/she truly cares about.
Symbol
"Heavens' embroidered cloths" (1)
The cloths symbolizes everything the love interest may want or need.
"I would spread the cloths under your feet" (5)
The narrator would give it all to his/her love interest.
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" (8)
The narrator is showing his/her love interest that he/she has given him/her (the love interest) everything he/she has.
Reification
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths" (1)
One cannot simply have "the heavens' cloths", the reification of this poem is the narrator is referring to having all the riches/wealth.
"I have spread my dreams under your feet" (7)
In other words, the narrator is saying that he/she gave everything he/she had to the love interest.
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" (8)
The love interest is not literally treading on the narrator's dreams, but the narrator is letting the love interest know that he/she has everything the narrator values and to be careful and not hurt the narrator's heart.