You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.

A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

The title of tonight's Twilight Zone comes from an 1842 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson called Loxley Hall, and it is quite a long poem so I won't read

at all, but the relevant lines go like this.

When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed, when I clung toward the present

for the promise that it closed. When I dipped into the future

far as human I could see, saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.

In the spring a full of crimson comes upon the robin's breast. In the spring the wanton

lapwing gets himself another crest. In the spring a livelier iris changes on the banished

dove. In the spring a young man's fancy likely turns to thoughts of love.

Now I am no poetry scholar and the old English language can be a bit impenetrable at times,

so I will rely on the interpretation of others.

According to the website phrases.org, the meaning of the poem is this.

The poem concludes with what is one of the best known lines in English poetry,

however, it wasn't the whimsical accolade to young love as might be imagined.

The protagonist muses on unrequited love in a somewhat bitter mood.

Tennyson describes the poem as showing young life, its good side, its deficiencies and its yearnings. By the word fancy, Tennyson meant imagination, a mental image. To take a fancy to is to be attracted to and imagine fancy oneself together with the object of one's affection.

So when we think of that in relation to tonight's Twilight Zone

and who the young man in it is fixated on,

then we have to ask ourselves,

is it bringing us into the realms of Romeo and Juliet?

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