There Where the Waves Shatter
There Where the Waves Shatter - meaning Summary
Ephemeral Sea, Enduring Love
The poem contrasts the sea’s violent, transient energy with a personal, lasting tenderness. Imagery of waves, bursting light, and dissolving foam emphasizes flux and impermanence. Against that relentless destructiveness the speakers assert a shared, quiet love that survives the sea’s collapses. The closing lines claim an intimate permanence woven into shifting elements, presenting love as the only enduring structure amid natural change and decay.
Read Complete AnalysesThere where the waves shatter on the restless rocks the clear light bursts and enacts its rose, and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds, to one drop of blue salt, falling. O bright magnolia bursting in the foam, magnetic transient whose death blooms and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever: broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.
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