This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful
This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful - meaning Summary
Global Fellowship in Solitude
In a quiet, solitary moment the speaker imagines people across different countries and languages. He reaches beyond immediate surroundings in an act of empathetic imagination, picturing bonds forming with strangers in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. The poem expresses a confident belief in shared humanity and the possibility of brotherhood and joy with distant others. It situates individual yearning within a broader, inclusive sense of kinship.
Read Complete AnalysesTHIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone, It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful; It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain—or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or India—talking other dialects; And it seems to me if I could know those men, I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands; O I know we should be brethren and lovers, I know I should be happy with them.
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