Flight to the City
Flight to the City - meaning Summary
Urban Coronation of Longing
The speaker imagines escorting a beloved through a dazzling, urban spectacle that mixes sacred and commercial imagery. Easter stars, flashing lights, skyscrapers and a coronal become materials for an imagined coronation. The poem compresses desire and imagination into playful, surreal offerings—a crown of buildings, nut-chocolates, tinsel stars—while admitting language limits and a wish to break through them to give a fitting gift.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Easter stars are shining above lights that are flashing-- coronal of the black- Nobody to say it- Nobody to say: pinholes Thither I would carry her among the lights- Burst it asunder break through to the fifty words necessary-- a crown for her head with castles upon it, skyscrapers filled with nut-chocolates-- dovetame winds-- stars of tinsel from the great end of a cornucopia of glass.
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