Into the Twilight
Into the Twilight - meaning Summary
Renewal in Twilight and Dew
The poem addresses an aging, worn heart and urges it to shed moral anxiety and return to simple, cyclical consolation. Yeats links personal loss of hope and love to the enduring youth of Eire and the steady rhythms of nature. Hills, rivers, sun and moon form a mystical brotherhood that outlasts human sorrow, while divine and temporal forces move on; the speaker finds solace in twilight and morning dew rather than transient affections.
Read Complete AnalysesOut-Worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is aways young, Dew ever shining and twilight grey; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the grey twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
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