Country of Rains
Country of Rains - meaning Summary
Rain-drenched Rural Longing
The poem presents a rain-soaked rural landscape that mixes mild melancholy with calm acceptance. Images of a broken moon, glowing star-fruit, and ripening corn register both loss and sensual pleasure. The speaker moves through fields and marshes, sensing sorrow yet finding simple bodily contentment in smells and tactile quiet. Nature’s mute abundance—hills, mist, and harvest—offers a subdued consolation rather than dramatic resolution.
Read Complete AnalysesCountry of rains and foul weather; nomadic silence; like a white loaf hung in the zenith, your moon is broken. Beyond the ploughland grows the raspberry-coloured goosefoot. A ripe star glows golden on the boughs of cloud, like a fruit. Again along the highroad, your sorrow notwithstanding, I breathe with bliss the smell of the summer corn along the water turning blue. The marsh mist smokes and thickens. But in the felt, melodious dark your hills are satisfied, in animal dumbness replete.
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