Gold Mouths Cry
Gold Mouths Cry - meaning Summary
Autumnal Memory and Blindness
The poem presents autumnal images centered on a bronze boy who recalls "a thousand autumns" with pride and sunlight, embodying serene nostalgia. Golden hues and laughter among the dead create a bright, celebratory surface that simultaneously masks decline. The speaker notes collective gladness and willful disregard for impending doom, suggesting a tension between radiant seasonal joy and the blindness or denial that hides mortality and decay.
Read Complete AnalysesGold mouths cry with the green young certainty of the bronze boy remembering a thousand autumns and how a hundred thousand leaves came sliding down his shoulder blades persuaded by his bronze heroic reason. We ignore the coming doom of gold and we are glad in this bright metal season. Even the dead laugh among the goldenrod. The bronze boy stands kneedeep in centuries, and never grieves, remembering a thousand autumns, with sunlight of a thousand years upon his lips and his eyes gone blind with leaves.
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