Behold, from the Land of the Farther Suns
Behold, from the Land of the Farther Suns - meaning Summary
Return to a Hostile World
The speaker describes returning from a distant, luminous realm to find Earth transformed into a hostile, reptile-filled place of dark menace. Overwhelmed with loathing and sickness, he asks a companion what this is. The companion answers that this bleak, masked world is the speaker’s original home. The poem presents a sudden, dislocating recognition of familiar reality as alien and morally degraded.
Read Complete AnalysesBehold, from the land of the farther suns I returned. And I was in a reptile-swarming place, Peopled, otherwise, with grimaces, Shrouded above in black impenetrableness. I shrank, loathing, Sick with it. And I said to him, "What is this?" He made answer slowly, "Spirit, this is a world; This was your home."
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