Arrival
Arrival - context Summary
From Spring and All
Placed in the collection Spring and All, this short lyric compresses a sudden intimate encounter into a few tactile, seasonal images. The speaker arrives and undresses a woman; autumnal and wintry metaphors — falling leaves, a wind-twisted body — frame the physical moment as both erotic and transitory. The poem emphasizes immediacy and bodily presence while suggesting emotional ambiguity and the passage from one state to another.
Read Complete AnalysesAnd yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind . . . !
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