Truth
Truth - meaning Summary
Fear of Sudden Illumination
The poem explores the uneasy anticipation of sudden illumination after prolonged habit in darkness. Speakers have mourned and prayed yet fear the arrival of a revealing sun that would force them out of familiar shade. The light functions as a metaphor for truth, change, or judgment, provoking dread and a desire to retreat into comforting unawareness. The closing lines emphasize how heavy and comforting darkness can feel even when it conceals reality.
Read Complete AnalysesAnd if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade? Though we have wept for him, Though we have prayed All through the night-years— What if we wake one shimmering morning to Hear the fierce hammering Of his firm knuckles Hard on the door? Shall we not shudder?— Shall we not flee Into the shelter, the dear thick shelter Of the familiar Propitious haze? Sweet is it, sweet is it To sleep in the coolness Of snug unawareness. The dark hangs heavily Over the eyes.
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