Dream
Dream - meaning Summary
Dream as Submerged Longing
The poem depicts a dreamlike cycle of desire and surrender. The speaker’s heart alternates between waking longing and a cold fountain that both receives and dissolves it. Refrains in parentheses create a hushed, inward voice—spiders, silence, and white hands—suggesting attempts to stitch or restrain feeling. The closing image of the water carrying the heart turns yearning into release, blending mourning and a strange, joyful submission.
Read Complete AnalysesMy heart rests, by the cold fountain. (Fill it with threads, spider of silence) The fountain-water sang it the song. (Fill it with threads, spider of silence) My heart, waking, sang its desires. (Spider of nothingness, spin your mystery) The fountain-water listened sombrely. (Spider of nothingness, spin your mystery) My heart falls into the cold of the fountain. (White hands, far-out, hold back the water) The water carries it, singing with joy. (White hands, far-out, nothing there in the water)
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