The One Who Could Repeat the Summer Day
poem 307
The One Who Could Repeat the Summer Day - meaning Summary
Enduring Identity Through Repetition
The poem imagines a being powerful enough to repeat a summer day and reenact a sunset the "Lingering and the Stain." That ability to reproduce brief, luminous moments makes this figure greater than the day itself. Even if east and west are altered or forgotten, the poem asserts that such a name endures. It meditates on permanence achieved through exact repetition of ephemeral experience.
Read Complete AnalysesThe One who could repeat the Summer day Were greater than itself though He Minutest of Mankind should be And He could reproduce the Sun At period of going down The Lingering and the Stain I mean When Orient have been outgrown And Occident become Unknown His Name remain
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