Friend
Friend - meaning Summary
Longing for a Distant Friend
The poem presents a speaker awake on a stormy night, anxiously waiting for a beloved friend who is on a perilous journey of love. The speaker peers into darkness, unable to see the friend’s path, and imagines them threading through an ink-black river, a frowning forest, and mazy gloom. It is a quiet meditation on longing, uncertainty, and the emotional intensity of hoping for a distant companion’s safe arrival.
Read Complete AnalysesArt thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink—black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?
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