The Moon Wakes
The Moon Wakes - meaning Summary
Moon and Nocturnal Estrangement
The poem portrays night as a transformative force: when the moon appears ordinary sounds and surfaces vanish, leaving human feeling isolated and hushed. Everyday actions and objects—eating an orange, money in a pocket—acquire uncanny rules and emotion, suggesting a world where desire and value are altered by lunar presence. The moon functions as both revealer and occluder, producing a quiet, dreamlike estrangement from everyday life.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen the moon sails out the bells fade into stillness and there emerge the pathways tha tcan't be penetrated. When the moon sails out the water hides earth's surface, the heart feels like an island in the infinite silence. Nobody eats an orange under the moon's fullness. It is correct to eat, then, green and icy fruit. When the moon sails out with a hundred identical faces, the coins made of silver sob in your pocket.
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