Barefoot on Midsummer Eve in the Forest Yonder
Barefoot on Midsummer Eve in the Forest Yonder - meaning Summary
Birth and Rustic Destiny
The poem recounts a folklike origin: the speaker is born during a midsummer, barefoot rite in the forest, amid herbs and song. Rural ritual and magic frame the child’s arrival and early promise of happiness. Yet the voice acknowledges that joy must be pursued rather than granted, choosing lovers boldly. The final image—melting like a snowflake into blueness—suggests fleeting identity and an effort to erase traces from Fate.
Read Complete AnalysesBarefoot on Midsummer Eve in the forest yonder Mother went with skirt tucked up in the dew to wander. Her bare feet were stung bу herbs blessed with magic power, In the meadow grass she wept, painful was that hour. Suddenly she cried aloud, pain her body shaking, Down she lay and on the spot gave birth to а bаbу. I was born to sound of song, meadow grass tucked round me. In а rainbow bright the sun every morning bound те. Child of rural summer rites, I grew wiser, bolder. Magic-making eventide happiness foretold me. Happiness though doesn't соmе simply for the asking. Pretty eyes and brows I'll choose in а manner dashing. Like а white snowflake I melt into blueness, hiding Traces of my passage from Fate, the great divider.
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