You Asked Me to Come:it Was Raining a Little
You Asked Me to Come:it Was Raining a Little - meaning Summary
Intimacy Versus Memory
The poem recounts a brief, rainy rendezvous that shifts from an amused, delicate observation of spring into immediate sensual intimacy. The speaker remembers tactile and visual details—dress, kiss, skin—while labeling them with paradoxical, often playful adjectives that mix tenderness and banality. A promise to forget contrasts with the persistence of erotic memory and the poet’s ironic awareness of how desire both ennobles and trivializes its objects.
Read Complete Analysesyou asked me to come:it was raining a little, and the spring;a clumsy brightness of air wonderfully stumbled above the square, little amorous-tadpole people wiggled battered by stuttering pearl, leaves jiggled to the jigging fragrance of newness —and then. My crazy fingers liked your dress ….your kiss,your kiss was a distinct brittle flower,and the flesh crisp set my love-tooth on edge. So until light each having each we promised to forget— wherefore is there nothing left to guess: the cheap intelligent thighs,the electric trite thighs;the hair stupidly priceless.
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