March
March - meaning Summary
Desolation Meets Renewal
Kavanagh’s "March" presents a bleak, cold landscape where a persistent wind carries images of decay, violence, and dying men. Amid this hellish vision the speaker also encounters vacancies and the surprising apparition of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and poetry itself appears as a sudden, bright blossom. The poem contrasts mortality and moral degradation with a redemptive moment of insight, suggesting that poetic truth can emerge even from bleak, personal struggle.
Read Complete AnalysesThere's a wind blowing Cold through the corridors, A ghost-wind, The flapping of defeated wings, A hell-fantasy From meadows damned To eternal April And listening, listening To the wind I hear The throat-rattle of dying men, From whose ears oozes Foamy blood, Throttled in a brothel. I see brightly In the wind vacancies Saint Thomas Aquinas And Poetry blossoms Excitingly As the first flower of truth.
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