Fire Pages
Fire Pages - meaning Summary
Reading Fire as Evidence
The speaker offers to read fire and ashes like a text, promising to interpret its marks and colors for someone who asks. The poem turns fire into a readable record of origin and motion, suggesting it both reveals how flames begin and how they can spread far, even to the sea. The voice is intimate and authoritative, proposing knowledge gained from close attention to elemental change.
Read Complete AnalysesI will read ashes for you, if you ask me. I will look on the fire and tell you from the gray lashes And out of the red and black tongues and stripes, I will tell how fire comes And how fire runs far as the sea.
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