Wedding Wind
Wedding Wind - meaning Summary
Joy Stirred by the Wind
The poem describes a newly married speaker whose wedding day and night are dominated by a persistent wind. Initially it disrupts domestic moments, leaving the couple oddly separated, but the wind becomes a metaphor for an expansive, almost physical joy that permeates daily chores. The speaker wonders whether this gusting, enlivening force will endure or be ended by sleep or death, questioning the permanence of newly found happiness.
Read Complete AnalysesThe wind blew all my wedding-day, And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind; And a stable door was banging, again and again, That he must go and shut it, leaving me Stupid in candlelight, hearing rain, Seeing my face in the twisted candlestick, Yet seeing nothing. When he came back He said the horses were restless, and I was sad That any man or beast that night should lack The happiness I had. Now in the day All's ravelled under the sun by the wind's blowing. He has gone to look at the floods, and I Carry a chipped pail to the chicken-run, Set it down, and stare. All is the wind Hunting through clouds and forests, thrashing My apron and the hanging cloths on the line. Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep Now this perpetual morning shares my bed? Can even death dry up These new delighted lakes, conclude Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?
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