Behind the Cloudy Horizon
Behind the Cloudy Horizon - meaning Summary
Longing for Peaceful Release
The poem presents a speaker watching a cloudy horizon as a metaphor for an uncertain future. They alternate between hope that approaching change might finally soothe long‑standing emotional wounds and fear that sorrow will return. The image of dawn suggests a possible release, and death is contemplated not triumphantly but as a quieter, conciliatory end that could bring peace. The tone mixes weary resignation with a fragile hopefulness.
Read Complete AnalysesBehind the cloudy horizon - just like future in my heavenly chart - who can see if the coming gusts will bring a rest for my heart. Or the grey clouds returning will bring more dread to my heart. The old wounds, fireless burning, old sorrows again will smart. Behind the clouds, I see, a release! The dawn, across the sky zooms. I see death (of the earthly gloom) This is death but it may bring me peace.
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