Before Summer Rain
Before Summer Rain - meaning Summary
Anticipation Before a Storm
The poem captures the hush before a summer rain as an atmosphere that dissolves boundaries between outer nature and inner memory. A sudden absence in the green, a plover’s urgent note, and the promised downpour create a charged, intimate silence. The room’s portraits and tapestries seem to withdraw, exposing faded childhood impressions: chilly light, uncertainty, and old fears. Rain functions as a moment that both awakens and dissolves private solitude.
Read Complete AnalysesSuddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From the nearby wood you hear the urgent whistling of a plover, reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome: so much solitude and passion come from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide away from us, cautiously, as though they weren't supposed to hear what we are saying. And reflected on the faded tapestries now; the chill, uncertain sunlight of those long childhood hours when you were so afraid.
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