The Garden
The Garden - meaning Summary
Ephemeral Love Made Vast
The poem compresses a single intimate moment into cosmic significance. A brief winter morning in Montsouris Park, Paris, when two lovers hold each other, is described as a small second of eternity that outstrips thousands of years. By naming place and season and ending on the line that this earth is a star, the poem elevates private tenderness into universal, almost metaphysical, meaning.
Read Complete AnalysesThousands and thousands of years Would not be enough To tell of That small second of eternity When you held me When I held you One morning In winter's light In Montsouris Park In Paris On earth This earth That is a star
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