Glee the Great Storm Is Over
poem 619
Glee the Great Storm Is Over - meaning Summary
Survivors and Vanished Multitudes
The poem depicts a community reckoning with a catastrophic storm in which a few have returned and forty have been lost to the sea. Public rituals—bells, telling the tale—mark grief and attempted consolation. Children press for answers, but the narrative softens, the teller falters, and the sea becomes the only respondent. The poem contrasts factual accounting with the ineffable silence of loss and how communal memory yields to nature s unknowable verdict.
Read Complete AnalysesGlee The great storm is over Four have recovered the Land Forty gone down together Into the boiling Sand Ring for the Scant Salvation Toll for the bonnie Souls Neighbor and friend and Bridegroom Spinning upon the Shoals How they will tell the Story When Winter shake the Door Till the Children urge But the Forty Did they come back no more? Then a softness suffuse the Story And a silence the Teller’s eye And the Children no further question And only the Sea reply
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