Song for the Rainy Season
Song for the Rainy Season - meaning Summary
Love Turned to Mourning
The speaker mourns a love that has cooled and led to despair. Once adorned and hopeful, they relinquish pleasures and ask for grave tools and yew to mark their death, imagining winds and tempests over their burial. The beloved is admired for outward beauty but revealed as emotionally cold, and the poem closes in resigned bleakness: true love dies and the speaker accepts mortality as its consequence.
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