I Had Not Minded Walls
poem 398
I Had Not Minded Walls - meaning Summary
Barriers to Intimate Sight
The poem describes a speaker who would overcome any obstacle to meet a beloved, imagining tunneling through walls to reach a face and eyes. Yet the barriers here are paradoxically minute—a hair, a filament, a cobweb—that become insurmountable fortresses. Small, delicate limits act like a veil that conceals and guards, turning intimacy into guarded distance. The final image—dragons in the crease—suggests fear, complexity, and the emotional impediments that prevent union.
Read Complete AnalysesI had not minded Walls Were Universe one Rock And fr I heard his silver Call The other side the Block I’d tunnel till my Groove Pushed sudden thro’ to his Then my face take her Recompense The looking in his Eyes But ’tis a single Hair A filament a law A Cobweb wove in Adamant A Battlement of Straw A limit like the Veil Unto the Lady’s face But every Mesh a Citadel And Dragons in the Crease
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