The Valley of the Black Pig
The Valley of the Black Pig - meaning Summary
Dreams Invoke Ancient Conflict
The poem presents a haunting, dreamlike vision in which morning dews and rising dreams bring sudden images of battle: spears, fallen horsemen, and dying armies. The speaker situates themselves and their companions at ancient ritual sites — a cromlech and a caim — feeling exhausted by worldly powers and turning in reverent submission to a commanding, possibly supernatural figure called the "Master" who presides over stars and a "flaming door."
Read Complete AnalysesThe dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes, And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries Of unknown perishing armies beat about my ears. We who still labour by the cromlech on the shore, The grey caim on the hill, when day sinks drowned in dew, Being weary of the world's empires, bow down to you. Master of the still stars and of the flaming door.
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