Night of Insomniac Love
Night of Insomniac Love - meaning Summary
Contrasting Emotional Registers
The poem depicts a sleepless, intimate encounter in which two lovers register emotion differently: one laughs with contempt while the other weeps. Night amplifies pain and distance through stark, bodily and natural images—doves, sand, blood—then morning arrives to expose the relationship’s coldness. The final sunlight and blooming coral contrast with the speaker’s still-shrouded heart, suggesting an unresolved tension between outward renewal and inner sorrow.
Read Complete AnalysesNight approached us, with a full moon. I began to cry, and you to laugh. Your contempt was a god, and my whinings, a chain of doves and minutes. Night left us. Crystal of pain you wept for distant depths. My sadness was a cluster of agonies, over your fragile heart of sand. Morning joined us on the bed, our mouths placed over the frozen jet of a blood, without end, that was shed. And the sun shone through the closed balcony, and the coral of life opened its branch, over my shrouded heart.
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