In the Wave-strike Over Unquiet Stones
In the Wave-strike Over Unquiet Stones - meaning Summary
Love as Oceanic Fusion
The poem uses ocean imagery to describe an intimate, transformative union. Waves, drops, and bursting brightness compress vast movement into a single moment where lovers merge. The sea both creates and destroys shapes, suggesting cyclical return, impermanence, and rebirth. Amid that relentless motion and dissolution, the speaker finds a persistent tenderness that links being and nothingness, portraying love as both luminous event and ongoing, elemental force.
Read Complete AnalysesIn the wave-strike over unquiet stones the brightness bursts and bears the rose and the ring of water contracts to a cluster to one drop of azure brine that falls. O magnolia radiance breaking in spume, magnetic voyager whose death flowers and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness: shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean. Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence while the sea destroys its continual forms, collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness, because in the weft of those unseen garments of headlong water, and perpetual sand, we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
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