Spring Pools
Spring Pools - meaning Summary
Ephemeral Renewal and Restraint
The poem observes shallow spring pools in a forest that mirror the sky and tremble like nearby flowers. Frost notes their transience: they will vanish not into streams but upward into tree roots to nourish emerging foliage. Addressing the trees, the speaker asks them to hesitate before unleashing their full leafy power and so ‘‘drink up’’ the pools and flowers that survived only from yesterday’s snow. The poem frames a quiet moral appeal to preserve a fragile, momentary beauty against the inevitable sweep of seasonal growth.
Read Complete AnalysesThese pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone, And yet not out by any brook or river, But up by roots to bring dark foliage on. The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods – Let them think twice before they use their powers To blot out and drink up and sweep away These flowery waters and these watery flowers From snow that melted only yesterday.
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