It Struck Me Every Day
It Struck Me Every Day - meaning Summary
Recurring Sudden Pain
The poem describes a recurring, sudden pain likened to lightning that repeatedly strikes the speaker. The image of a newly split cloud conveys each episode’s freshness; the wound invades night and dreams and returns with morning light. What was expected to be a brief storm instead endures because "Nature lost the date," leaving the suffering suspended in the sky. The poem registers persistent emotional or psychological torment made vivid by weather imagery.
Read Complete AnalysesIt struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in the night, It blistered in my dream; It sickened fresh upon my sight With every morning’s beam. I thought that storm was brief,– The maddest, quickest by; But Nature lost the date of this, And left it in the sky.
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