Up Into the Silence the Green

Up Into the Silence the Green - meaning Summary

Yearning Framed as Departure

The poem tracks a speaker’s imagined movements through landscapes—silence, morning, sunlight, memory—each scene promising that “you will go.” Interspersed parenthetical pleas of kiss me blur imperative and intimacy, so the anticipated departure becomes entwined with desire and hesitation. The progression from external spaces to inner recollection suggests love’s push-and-pull: leaving and staying, assertion and supplication, until the personal memory absorbs the act of kissing itself.