I Will Wade Out
I Will Wade Out - meaning Summary
Sensual Self-transcendence
The poem presents a bold affirmation of bodily experience and imaginative metamorphosis. The speaker insists on immersing in sensuous, elemental forces—sun, air, flowers, sea—seeking a fierce union of flesh and nature that risks dashing into darkness. This striving mixes erotic energy with spiritual renewal: the body’s mystery is to be completed through passionate contact, deathlike descent, and eventual rising, suggesting cyclical transformation and an embrace of both peril and rebirth.
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