Carl Sandburg

Spanish

Spanish - meaning Summary

Desire and Visual Intensity

The speaker urgently calls for another person’s gaze beneath peach trees. The repeated command to "fasten" black eyes in the speaker’s gray expresses a craving for attention or intimacy, using contrasting colors and a sudden martial image—"spear of a storm"—to heighten intensity. The setting’s pink haze of blossoms softens the scene, creating a tension between tenderness and forceful desire.

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FASTEN black eyes on me. I ask nothing of you under the peach trees, Fasten your black eyes in my gray with the spear of a storm. The air under the peach blossoms is a haze of pink.

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