Who Knows If the Moon's
Who Knows If the Moon's - meaning Summary
Moon as Imagined Escape
The poem imagines the moon as a balloon carrying "pretty people" and invites a loved one aboard for a joint ascent. It sketches an escapist, childlike fantasy of leaving ordinary life behind for a bright, perpetual Spring city where love and spontaneous joy prevail. The vision is tender and surreal, framing desire as a shared, imaginative flight away from houses and steeples into an idyllic, communal world.
Read Complete Analyseswho knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves
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