Azure Space Is Aflame Up Above
Azure Space Is Aflame Up Above - meaning Summary
Love Softens a Rebel
The speaker declares a sudden, earnest conversion to love. He contrasts a former life of drinking, casual lovers and bravado with a new desire for steadiness and devotion. He pleads with the beloved—drawn to her "gold-brown eyes" and autumn-colored hair—to accept his changed behaviour and loyalty. Refrains underscore that this is his first true singing of love and his first renunciation of contention and dissipation.
Read Complete AnalysesAzure space is aflame up above, I've forgotten my home destination... For the first time I'm singing of love, For the first time I give up contention. I was all like a desolate grove Loving women and heavily drinking. I don"t drink any more and don't love Like I did, living fast and unthinking. All I want is to look at the vast Of your gold-brown eyes, and, - oh, bother! - How I wish that, disliking your past, You would not like to go to another! Gentle step, graceful waist that you have! Oh if only you wer' able to tumble How a bully can really love, And how he can be timid and humble! All those pubs I would never attend, And my poems would all be forgotten, If you let me take hold of your hand And your hair, the colour of autumn. I would follow you ever, my dove, Be it distant or close destination... For the first time I'm singing of love, For the first time I give up contention.
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