Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas - meaning Summary
Seasons as Quiet Direction
The speaker watches white hydrangeas losing color and turning brown as autumn approaches. Simple, observational lines track seasonal change—sunsets marking the petals’ decline—and treat the flowers as if they are aware, "waiting" and peering over a fence for their next direction. The poem quietly registers transience and uncertainty, using a garden scene to suggest the inevitability of decline and the small, passive hope for guidance.
Read Complete AnalysesDragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas turn rust and go soon. Already mid September a line of brown runs over them. One sunset after another tracks the faces, the petals. Waiting, they look over the fence for what way they go.
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