William Carlos Williams

The Rewaking

The Rewaking - meaning Summary

Love as Restorative Power

Williams presents a simple meditation on stopping futile striving and allowing love to restore nature and perception. The speaker accepts that attempts to reconstruct an idealized image — the rose — must end, yet a beloved’s love can indefinitely extend renewal. That love rekindles springtime flowers and, by extension, revives the sun itself, suggesting emotional intimacy heals loss and re-animates both small natural details and larger sources of light.

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Sooner or later we must come to the end of striving to re-establish the image the image of the rose but not yet you say extending the time indefinitely by your love until a whole spring rekindle the violet to the very lady’s-slipper and so by your love the very sun itself is revived

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