A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls
A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls - meaning Summary
A Crowded Earthly Chorus
The poem presents a brief tableau in which a small bright image — a slant of sun and a shy blue sky — frames a tumult of everyday sounds and sights. Human and animal noises, celebrations and laments, and natural violence are listed as a single chaotic chorus. That accumulated tumult culminates in a desperate plea to the divine, suggesting the world’s chaotic plurality ultimately expresses a need for rescue or order.
Read Complete AnalysesA slant of sun on dull brown walls, A forgotten sky of bashful blue. Toward God a mighty hymn, A song of collisions and cries, Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells, Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans, Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair, The unknown appeals of brutes, The chanting of flowers, The screams of cut trees, The senseless babble of hens and wise men - A cluttered incoherency that says at the stars: 'O God, save us!'
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