A Dream: Black Road
A Dream: Black Road - meaning Summary
Unattainable Beloved in Dream
The speaker recounts a dreamlike ride along a ‘‘black road’’ on a white horse toward a beloved who is paradoxically "dear" yet unlovable. Birch trees, moonlight and a narrow path create a nocturnal, intimate landscape that highlights absence and longing. The final stanza names the speaker a maudlin hooligan racing through birchy Russia to pursue this unattainable figure, combining yearning with self-aware, restless desire.
Read Complete AnalysesA dream: black road. White horse. Stubborn foot. And on the horse rides someone dear, rides someone dear I do not love. Ah, Russian birch, narrow pathway, only that one dear as sleep, her hold with your boughs like expert hands. Moonlight. Blue, sleep. The horse clops well. Such music light for that unique one, she who holds such light, but not exists. A hooligan, maudling with rhymes. At a mad career to keep the heart hot, through birchy Russia to meet with her, my non-beloved.
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