Another Weeping Woman
Another Weeping Woman - meaning Summary
Grief and Imaginative Consolation
The poem addresses a grieving woman and urges her to release corrosive sorrow that imagination alone should heal. It presents unhappiness as a poison that blooms in tears and isolates her from the consoling power of the imagination. The speaker contrasts the speaker's capacity for creative reality with the beloved's indifference, leaving the woman 'pierced by a death' that is emotional and existential rather than literal.
Read Complete AnalysesPour the unhappiness out From your too bitter heart, Which grieving will not sweeten. Poison grows in this dark. It is in the water of tears Its black blooms rise. The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.
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