A Portrait in Greys
A Portrait in Greys - meaning Summary
Stalemate in Grey Tones
The poem addresses a strained relationship shaded by repeated greyness. The speaker pleads for separation from the other person’s persistent dullness and yearns for a shared place of peace. Imagery of landscapes and a grey sky frames emotional distance: one figure drags on in a colorless world while the speaker imagines precarious intimacy—standing on the other’s shoulders—yet cannot escape the mutual, weary motion apart.
Read Complete AnalysesWill it never be possible to separate you from your greyness? Must you be always sinking backward into your grey-brown landscapes—and trees always in the distance, always against a grey sky? Must I be always moving counter to you? Is there no place where we can be at peace together and the motion of our drawing apart be altogether taken up? I see myself standing upon your shoulders touching a grey, broken sky— but you, weighted down with me, yet gripping my ankles,—move laboriously on, where it is level and undisturbed by colors.
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