At North Farm
At North Farm - meaning Summary
Awaiting an Unknown Deliverer
The poem imagines a distant traveler racing to deliver something to the speaker or household. It questions whether the traveler will find or recognize the recipient and whether the gift will be accepted. The scene contrasts apparent scarcity with surprising abundance: the land seems barren yet stores overflow. Food and supplies are present, but the household’s feelings about the arrival remain ambivalent.
Read Complete AnalysesSomewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will hem know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you? Hardly anything grows here, Yet the granaries are bursting with meal, The sacks of meal piled to the rafters. The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish; Birds darken the sky. Is it enough That the dish of milk is set out at night, That we think of him sometimes, Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings.
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