The Everlasting Monday
The Everlasting Monday - meaning Summary
Perpetual, Isolating Labor
The poem uses the figure of a moon-bound laborer to portray relentless, joyless repetition. An "everlasting Monday" becomes a metaphor for persistent gloom and work without reward. Imagery of cold lunar light, bundled sticks, and chained seas emphasizes isolation and exhaustion. The speaker contrasts the moon-man’s tireless effort to make his room outshine Sunday’s sun with the futility of that labor, suggesting depression’s cyclical, inescapable weariness.
Read Complete AnalysesThou shalt have an everlasting Monday and stand in the moon. The moon's man stands in his shell, Bent under a bundle Of sticks. The light falls chalk and cold Upon our bedspread. His teeth are chattering among the leprous Peaks and craters of those extinct volcanoes. He also against black frost Would pick sticks, would not rest Until his own lit room outshone Sunday's ghost of sun; Now works his hell of Mondays in the moon's ball, Fireless, seven chill seas chained to his ankle.
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