After Five
After Five - meaning Summary
Recurring Summer Remembrance
The poem describes a recurring, almost involuntary memory of a beloved that returns like summer. The speaker's body and senses respond to nature's renewal—stars, trees, leaves, dawn—as if the landscape echoes and completes their longing. Quiet physical intimacy and repose follow: the speaker lies with closed eyes, sensing the earth where the beloved rests. The tone links seasonal cycles and bodily yearning to suggest persistent, gentle remembrance.
Read Complete Analysesafter five times the poem of thy remembrance surprises with refrain of unreasoning summer that by responding ways cloaked with renewal my body turns toward thee again for the stars have been finished in the nobler trees and the language of leaves repeats eventual perfection while east deserves of dawn. i lie at length,breathing with shut eyes the sweet earth where thou liest
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