I Want, I Want
I Want, I Want - meaning Summary
Desire as Violent Heritage
The poem depicts a grotesque origin scene in which a newborn deity cries for nourishment and lineage, only to encounter a barren, violent world shaped by an unfeeling father. Imagery of cracked earth, predatory animals, and barbed crowns suggests desire transformed into brutality and mechanical creation. It reads as a compression of birth, hunger, and patriarchal manufacture, where nurture is absent and power is enforced through engineered violence.
Read Complete AnalysesOpen-mouthed, the baby god Immense, bald, though baby-headed, Cried out for the mother's dug. The dry volcanoes cracked and split, Sand abraded the milkless lip. Cried then for the father's blood Who set wasp, wolf and shark to work, Engineered the gannet's beak. Dry-eyed, the inveterate patriarch Raised his men of skin and bone, Barbs on the crown of gilded wire, Thorns on the bloody rose-stem.
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