The Light Wraps You
The Light Wraps You - form Summary
A Sonnet of Luminous Turn
This poem is structured as a sonnet, whose concentrated fourteen-line form channels a single, dramatic movement: an initial image of light enclosing the addressee shifts into darker, subterranean imagery and culminates in an imperative to rise and create. The sonnet’s tight architecture intensifies contrasts between illumination and night, passivity and fecund agency, so the emotional arc feels compressed, vivid, and decisive within a brief lyric span.
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