April Aubade
April Aubade - meaning Summary
Spring's Deceptive Renewal
The poem celebrates a lush spring morning with vivid, religious and floral imagery that sanctifies nature and the couple’s intimacy. Plath stages a ritual of renewal—sparrows, tulips, jonquils and sunlight—framing lovers as garlanded participants in a sacramental world. The closing couplet undercuts the reverie, admitting the consoling illusion that they are somehow younger, so the poem balances rapture with a quietly skeptical ruefulness.
Read Complete AnalysesWorship this world of watercolor mood in glass pagodas hung with veils of green where diamonds jangle hymns within the blood and sap ascends the steeple of the vein. A saintly sparrow jargons madrigals to waken dreamers in the milky dawn, while tulips bow like a college of cardinals before that papal paragon, the sun. Christened in a spindrift of snowdrop stars, where on pink-fluted feet the pigeons pass and jonquils sprout like solomon's metaphors, my love and I go garlanded with grass. Again we are deluded and infer that somehow we are younger than we were.
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