Summer Serenade
Summer Serenade - meaning Summary
Heat and Playful Urgency
The poem presents a playful speaker addressing a lover amid summer discomfort. Vivid images—thunder, flies, wet shirts and dry throats—set a hot, slightly oppressive scene. Rather than retreating from weather or postponing intimacy, the speaker urges togetherness, turning heat into a reason for closeness. The closing line frames mutual surrender to summer warmth as a shared, defiant pleasure rather than an inconvenience.
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