Cruelly, Love
Cruelly, Love - meaning Summary
Love Walking Through Autumn
The poem personifies love as a fragile walker through autumn, observing the decay of a last flower and the cooling of songs and dreams. Imagery of withering, a distant moon, and looming winter frames love as vulnerable yet compelled to continue, to ‘‘smile dustily to the people’’ despite impending loss. It meditates on mortality, the transient nature of beauty and affection, and a resigned acceptance of seasonal endings.
Read Complete Analysescruelly,love walk the autumn long; the last flower in whose hair, they lips are cold with songs for which is first to wither,to pass? shallowness of sunlight falls,and cruelly, across the grass Comes the moon love,walk the autumn love,for the last flower in the hair withers; thy hair is acold with dreams, love thou art frail —walk the longness of autumn smile dustily to the people, for winter who crookedly care.
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