Silver Wind
Silver Wind - meaning Summary
Searching in Seasonal Light
The poem expresses yearning for a beloved through seasonal and natural images. The speaker links summer’s rhythms and the earth’s breaths to absence and longing, promising to seek the beloved in pale, moonlit nights and in hickory trees’ sounds and movements. Nature’s silver light and wind become sites of memory and hope, turning rural sensory detail into a quiet vow to continue searching despite separation.
Read Complete AnalysesDO you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer— Summer when the lungs of the earth take a long breath for the change to low contralto singing mornings when the green corn leaves first break through the black loam— And another long breath for the silver soprano melody of the moon songs in the light nights when the earth is lighter than a feather, the iron mountains lighter than a goose down— So I shall look for you in the light nights then, in the laughter of slats of silver under a hill hickory. In the listening tops of the hickories, in the wind motions of the hickory shingle leaves, in the imitations of slow sea water on the shingle silver in the wind— I shall look for you.
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