Thursday
Thursday - context Summary
From Spring and All
This short lyric, published in the collection Spring and All, registers a deliberate turn away from imagination toward immediate, embodied perception. The speaker reports giving up a dream that "has come to nothing" and anchors themselves in physical sensations—the weight of clothes and shoes, breathing, the hat’s rim—choosing presence over speculation. The poem stages a pragmatic, somatic response to disillusionment.
Read Complete AnalysesI have had my dream--like others-- and it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky-- feeling my clothes about me, the weight of my body in my shoes, the rim of my hat, air passing in and out at my nose--and decide to dream no more.
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