What Is Divinity
What Is Divinity - meaning Summary
Divinity in Earthly Experience
Stevens questions traditional notions of divinity by locating the sacred in sensory, everyday life rather than distant silence or dreams. The poem argues that divine presence dwells within human emotions and natural changes — pleasures, pains, seasonal shifts, and bodily passions become legitimate measures of the soul. Rather than an otherworldly ideal, divinity is immanent, found in concrete experiences like fruit, rain, blooming forests, and autumnal streets.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? Shall she not find in comforts of the sun, In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else In any balm or beauty of the earth, Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven? Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The bough of summer and the winter branch, These are the measures destined for her soul.
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