Love Is the Master
Love Is the Master - meaning Summary
Surrender to Overwhelming Love
This poem presents love (capitalized) as an overwhelming, divine force that utterly controls the speaker. Using images of straw in a storm, a cat in a sack, a furious wind and turning mill wheels, the speaker describes loss of personal agency, constant motion, and ecstatic surrender. Human plans and pacts with destiny are dismissed as folly. The poem emphasizes religious passion, submission to God’s will, and the restless, transformative power of love.
Read Complete AnalysesLove is the One who masters all things; I am mastered totally by Love. By my passion of love for Love I have ground sweet as sugar. O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you; How could I know where I will be blown next? Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny Reveals himself a liar and a fool; What is any of us but a straw in a storm? How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane? God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection; How can we pretend to act on our own? In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack; Sometimes Love hoists me into the air, Sometimes Love flings me into the air, Love swings me round and round His head; I have no peace, in this world or any other. The lovers of God have fallen in a furious river; They have surrendered themselves to Love’s commands. Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night, Constantly turning and turning, and crying out.
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