Thinking, Tangling Shadows
Thinking, Tangling Shadows - meaning Summary
Solitude and Distant Longing
The poem registers a speaker’s restless solitude and a longing for a distant woman. Through sweeping images of sea, fire, fog and ruins, the speaker moves between memory, rage, nostalgia and fleeting joy. Repetition of thinking and burying lamps suggests inward searching and extinguished intimacies. The voice alternates between vivid outward scenes and interior reflection, asking who the addressee is while mapping the speaker’s emotional landscape.
Read Complete AnalysesThinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude. You are far away too, oh farther than anyone. Thinking, freeing birds, dissolving images, burying lamps. Belfry of fogs, how far away, up there! Stifling laments, milling shadowy hopes, taciturn miller, night falls on you face downward, far from the city. Your presence is foreign, as strange to me as a thing. I think, I explore great tracts of my life before you. My life before anyone, my harsh life. The shout facing the sea, among the rocks, running free, mad, in the sea-spray. The sad rage, the shout, the solitude of the sea. Headlong, violent, stretched towards the sky. You, woman, what were you there, what ray, what vane of that immense fan? You were as far as you are now. Fire in the forest! Burn in blue crosses. Burn, burn, flame up, sparkle in trees of light. It collapses, crackling. Fire. Fire. And my soul dances, seared with curls of fire. Who calls? What silence peopled with echoes? Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude. Hour that is mine from among them all! Megaphone in which the wind passes singing. Such a passion of weeping tied to my body. Shaking of all the roots, attack of all the waves! My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending. Thinking, burying lamps in the deep solitude. Who are you, who are you?
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