The Spring
The Spring - meaning Summary
Spring's Strange Diminished Return
Pound’s poem depicts a spring that is vividly alive in nature yet strangely diminished in human presence. Seasonal renewal — bright shoots, vines, and water-girls — coexists with an ache: desire strikes like "black lightning" and a once-animated figure returns only as a faint ghost. The poem contrasts botanical rebirth with emotional loss, suggesting renewal does not erase absence and that memory or longing can make revival feel partial and spectral.
Read Complete AnalysesCydonian Spring with her attendant train, Maelids and water-girls, Stepping beneath a boisterous wind from Thrace, Throughout this sylvan place Spreads the bright tips, And every vine-stock is Clad in new brilliancies. And wild desire Falls like black lightning. bewildered heart, Though every branch have back what last year lost, She, who moved here amid the cyclamen, Moves only now a clinging tenuous ghost.
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