The Stream
The Stream - meaning Summary
Love as Sustaining Current
The poem contrasts past violence and loss with an enduring, life-giving image of love. Water and blood acknowledge hardship, but love carries a purifying white stream that awakens private celebration. Dreamlike lunar and solar imagery collapses inner and outer worlds: the moon becomes the speaker's mind, the sun the beloved's eyes. The poem centers on transformative affection that redeems trauma and converts memory into a luminous, almost mystical present.
Read Complete AnalysesMuch water has passed beneath the bridge and much blood too But upon feet of love there flows a great white stream And in the gardens of the moon where every day is my festival this stream sings in its sleep and this moon is my head within which there turns a great blue sun and the sun is your eyes.
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