I Know a Place Where Summer Strives
I Know a Place Where Summer Strives - meaning Summary
A Ritual of Fading Summer
The speaker depicts a personified summer that annually resigns itself to loss yet resists the end. Frost ceremonially drives the daisies away and records them “Lost,” but when the south wind warms lanes and pools, summer’s resolve falters. She spills warmth and scent into a hard, unyielding world where dew crystallizes like quartz on her shoe. The poem meditates on cyclical retreat, fragile persistence, and nature’s stubborn tenderness.
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