Back from a Walk
Back from a Walk - meaning Summary
Alienation and Transformation
The speaker returns from a walk transformed by bleak, surreal vision and identifies with damaged, mute, and marginalized beings. Repeated cry of being "murdered by the sky" frames resignation and alienation, while choices like letting hair grow suggest slow, physical change and acceptance. The poem gathers fractured images—limbless trees, broken animals, a drowned butterfly—to convey a mood of mourning, vulnerability, and quiet metamorphosis.
Read Complete AnalysesMurdered by the sky. Among the forms that move toward the snake and the forms searching for crystal I will let my hair grow. With the limbless tree that cannot sing and the boy with the white egg face. With the broken-headed animals and the ragged water of dry feet. With all that is tired, deaf-mute, and a butterfly drowned in an inkwell. Stubmling onto my face, different every day. Murdered by the sky!
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