A South Wind Has a Pathos
poem 719
A South Wind Has a Pathos - meaning Summary
Longing Carried by Wind
The poem personifies a south wind as if it speaks with a distinct, plaintive voice. Dickinson compares the wind’s tone to an emigrant’s address heard on a landing, suggesting movement, displacement, and longing. The wind brings faint hints of distant ports and peoples, details that remain elusive yet enhance their appeal. The speaker finds the unknown qualities more attractive precisely because they are remote and foreign. Overall the poem meditates on how partial, distant impressions stir desire and melancholy without offering full understanding or resolution.
Read Complete AnalysesA South Wind has a pathos Of individual Voice As One detect on Landings An Emigrant’s address. A Hint of Ports and Peoples And much not understood The fairer for the farness And for the foreignhood.
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