Demand
Demand - meaning Summary
Longing for Sustaining Vitality
The speaker addresses a "dream of utter aliveness" as if it were a living presence, pleading for its source and nature. Confronting a contrast between their own "body of utter death" and the dream's vitality, the poem asks where the sustaining light and wind come from. It frames yearning for transcendence and renewed life as an urgent, intimate interrogation of an inner imaginative or spiritual force.
Read Complete AnalysesListen! Dear dream of utter aliveness- Touching my body of utter death- Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliveness, The flaming source of your bright breath. Tell me, O dream of utter aliveness- Knowing so well the wind and the sun- Where is this light Your eyes see forever? And what is the wind You touch when you run?
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