Who'd Fully Stopped You
Who'd Fully Stopped You - meaning Summary
Rebellion Stilled, Longing Unleashed
The speaker confronts natural forces—waves, winds, thunder—as metaphors for a personal loss of vitality. He asks who has chained the billows and dulled his once "ever-boiling" soul, depicting emotional numbness as a transformed, mute sea. The closing lines call for storms and winds to shatter the restraint and restore movement and freedom. The poem frames yearning and frustration through an urgent appeal to elemental rescue.
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