Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn - meaning Summary
Blind Archers, Blind Love
The poem equates love with blind archers whose arrows pierce a rich, nocturnal landscape. Night imagery—saetas, lilies, a moon like a keel—frames acts of wounding that simultaneously feel tender and inevitable. Traces of warmth and dew suggest bodily aftermath and fragile beauty. Repetition of the central assertion rounds the short lyric, underlining love’s irrational, uncontrollable force and the mingled pain and grace it leaves behind.
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