Village in Late Summer
Village in Late Summer - meaning Summary
Half-measures of Village Life
The poem sketches a small village in a state of partial engagement: people and objects are only half-active—lips, eyes, feet, clocks, and farmers all act in ways that suggest tiredness, leisure, or distraction. It evokes a late-summer lull where daily life slows into gentle incompletion and communal inertia. The repeated "half-" images create a unified mood of suspended time and soft domestic stillness.
Read Complete AnalysesLIPS half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
Feel free to be first to leave comment.