The Boat
The Boat - meaning Summary
Autumn’s Call to Departure
The poem presents a speaker readying to launch a boat as the easy hours on shore end. Seasonal images move from finished spring to falling yellow leaves, creating a sense of time passing and loss. The speaker feels restless and urged by clamorous waves and a distant song from the opposite bank. The boat becomes a symbol of departure and a response to an inner stirring to cross over.
Read Complete AnalysesI must launch out my boat. The languid hours pass by on the shore——Alas for me! The spring has done its flowering and taken leave. And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger. The waves have become clamorous, and upon the bank in the shady lane the yellow leaves flutter and fall. What emptiness do you gaze upon! Do you not feel a thrill passing through the air with the notes of the far—away song floating from the other shore?
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