The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass
The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass - meaning Summary
Wind as Invading Force
The poem depicts a sudden storm as an aggressive, animate force. Wind and weather are personified—threatening, flinging menaces, unhooking leaves, and hurling dust—prompting animals and people to seek shelter. The storm escalates from ominous signs to violent rain that seems to "wreck the sky," while the speaker observes from a near-safe vantage, noting damage that misses their father’s house but harms a nearby tree. The tone is vivid and observational.
Read Complete AnalysesThe wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,– He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands And throw away the road. The wagons quickened on the streets, The thunder hurried slow; The lightning showed a yellow beak, And then a livid claw. The birds put up the bars to nests, The cattle fled to barns; There came one drop of giant rain, And then, as if the hands That held the dams had parted hold, The waters wrecked the sky But overlooked my father’s house, lust quartering a tree.
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