Water Lily
Water Lily - meaning Summary
Quiet Transformative Agency
The poem presents a speaker who claims ownership of an expansive inner life that is inseparable from natural images—water ripples, sky shade. Rather than driven by desire, the self is already full and receptive; movement, not wanting, becomes the speaker’s agency. By sinking into water and drawing on mirror-like depths, the speaker converts nocturnal dreams into waking reality, suggesting a quiet, transformative power rooted in openness and inner wholeness.
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