Spring
Spring - meaning Summary
Love Through Attention to Wildness
In “Spring,” the speaker imagines a black bear emerging from hibernation and lets that image become a question about how to love the world. The bear’s physical presence—hungry, alert, and beyond speech—stands beside human life with its art and cities. The poem suggests that love includes attention to wildness and to the dark, living reality humans do not control.
Read Complete AnalysesSomewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring I think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tongue like a red fire touching the grass, the cold water. There is only one question: how to love this world. I think of her rising like a black and leafy ledge to sharpen her claws against the silence of the trees. Whatever else my life is with its poems and its music and its glass cities, it is also this dazzling darkness coming down the mountain, breathing and tasting; all day I think of her -— her white teeth, her wordlessness, her perfect love.
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