My Arkansas
My Arkansas - meaning Summary
Brooding Past in Arkansas
The poem depicts Arkansas as a place haunted by its past. The landscape and light feel heavy and delayed, suggesting lingering violence and unresolved history. Antebellum memories and old hatreds persist rather than vanish, shaping present life. The speaker senses a brooding energy that distorts time: dawn falters, dusk lacks relief, and the future is unsettled. The mood is sombre and watchful, emphasizing collective memory over immediate change.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is a deep brooding in Arkansas. Old crimes like moss pend from poplar trees. The sullen earth is much too red for comfort. Sunrise seems to hesitate and in that second lose its incandescent aim, and dusk no more shadows than the noon. The past is brighter yet. Old hates and ante-bellum lace are rent but not discarded. Today is yet to come in Arkansas. It writhes. It writhes in awful waves of brooding.
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