Summer Dawn
Summer Dawn - meaning Summary
Quiet Domestic Summer Dawn
The poem depicts a tranquil summer morning: sleeping children, a singing river, and fish moving under sunlit water. Natural images—pike, riverweed, birds—create a hushed, almost reverent atmosphere. The closing line shifts register with a dry, personal aside about not having flu, injecting gentle humor and human contrast into the stillness. The poem balances serene observation with an unexpectedly domestic, comic coda.
Read Complete AnalysesMy sleeping children are still flying dreams in their goose-down heads. The lush of the river singing morning songs Fish watch their ceilings turn sun-white. The grey-green pike lances upstream Kale, like mermaid's hair points the water's drift. All is morning hush and bird beautiful. I only, I didn't have flu.
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