Brief Innocence
Brief Innocence - meaning Summary
Morning's Fragile, Fleeting Peace
The poem depicts a brief morning calm that temporarily softens a violent, half-mad city. Dawn is personified as offering innocence that quiets the sharp, axe-keen intentions of daily life. For a short, tender moment the city’s aggression sleeps, imagined as childish play with angels. The poem registers that this peace is fragile and fleeting, a restorative interval before the day’s habitual harshness resumes.
Read Complete AnalysesDawn offers innocence to a half-mad city. The axe-keen intent of all our days for this brief moment lies soft, nuzzling the breast of morning, crooning, still sleep-besotted, of childish pranks with angels.
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