Southern Sunrise
Southern Sunrise - meaning Summary
Tropical Morning Painted Vividly
Plath's poem offers a compact, sensory portrait of a tropical dawn. Vivid colors and domestic similes animate villas and palms, which tilt and send up a celebratory fronded display. The poem follows a steady, luminous progression as quartz-clear light gilds the avenue and the bay yields a ripe, round watermelon sun
. It captures an intimate, visual awakening of place through concentrated imagery and slow temporal motion.
Color of lemon, mango, peach, These storybook villas Still dream behind Shutters, thier balconies Fine as hand- Made lace, or a leaf-and-flower pen-sketch. Tilting with the winds, On arrowy stems, Pineapple-barked, A green crescent of palms Sends up its forked Firework of fronds. A quartz-clear dawn Inch by bright inch Gilds all our Avenue, And out of the blue drench Of Angels' Bay Rises the round red watermelon sun.
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