Clenched Soul
Clenched Soul - meaning Summary
Longing at Twilight
The poem portrays a speaker's acute yearning for an absent beloved, set against the fading light of twilight. Everyday details — a falling book, a rolled sweater, a small remembered sun — become triggers for sudden waves of love and melancholy. The evening amplifies separation, turning memory into an intensifying ache as the beloved seems to recede "always" through the dusk, leaving the speaker alone with persistent longing.
Read Complete AnalysesWe have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world. I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops. Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand. I remembered you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know. Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? The book fell that always closed at twilight and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet. Always, always you recede through the evenings toward the twilight erasing statues.
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