We Met as Sparks Diverging Flints
poem 958
We Met as Sparks Diverging Flints - meaning Summary
Converging Then Fractured Sparks
The poem treats an intimate encounter as a meeting of sparks and flints. Two presences briefly generate shared light, then separate and are cleft apart, leaving each to subsist on the memory of that illumination. The speaker suggests that one remains a flint but has been changed by a lone spark, implying a small, pivotal event transformed ongoing identity and left enduring, diminished radiance.
Read Complete AnalysesWe met as Sparks Diverging Flints Sent various scattered ways We parted as the Central Flint Were cloven with an Adze Subsisting on the Light We bore Before We felt the Dark A Flint unto this Day perhaps But for that single Spark.
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