Foretelling the Future
Foretelling the Future - meaning Summary
Different Views of Revelation
The poem explores the ambiguous nature of prophetic insight or inspiration. It says the source—divine, accidental, fraudulent, or eerie—is irrelevant; what matters is the felt experience of revelation. The speaker describes a sensory change that makes the world glow and the self become luminous and softened, like the moon seen from Earth. But that shifted, distant perspective is fragile; being on the moon, with its closer view, would feel entirely different.
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