He Fumbles at Your Soul
poem 315
He Fumbles at Your Soul - meaning Summary
Death as Sudden Music
The poem presents death as a staged, musical and natural process. It likens a figure fumbled at the soul like a player testing keys, gradually dulling and preparing the self before a single, imperial blow that strips the soul bare. The final image—winds seizing forests while the universe remains still—links sudden, violent loss to a larger, indifferent calm. Tone is spare and unsettling.
Read Complete AnalysesHe fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on He stuns you by degrees Prepares your brittle Nature For the Ethereal Blow By fainter Hammers further heard Then nearer Then so slow Your Breath has time to straighten Your Brain to bubble Cool Deals One imperial&mda sh;Thunderbolt That scalps your naked Soul When Winds take Forests in the Paws The Universe is still
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