Is It for Now or for Always
Is It for Now or for Always - meaning Summary
Love, Doubt, Urgent Commitment
The speaker alternates between sceptical questioning and sudden certainty about a romantic encounter. Natural images—stalks, woods, juggling suns—register wonder and possible illusion, prompting the speaker to ask whether the moment is temporary or eternal. Anxiety about authenticity yields to an urgent, embracing decision in the final stanza, where the beloved is claimed and the speaker insists that permanence is enacted in the immediacy of now.
Read Complete AnalysesIs it for now or for always, The world hangs on a stalk? Is it a trick or a trysting-place, The woods we have found to walk? Is it a mirage or miracle, Your lips that lift at mine: And the suns like a juggler's juggling-balls, Are they a sham or a sign? Shine out, my sudden angel, Break fear with breast and brow, I take you now and for always, For always is always now.
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