Willow Poem
Willow Poem - meaning Summary
Lingering Summer in a Willow
The poem observes a riverside willow that refuses autumn’s transformations. Its leaves do not redden or fall but grow paler and cling, swinging over the swirling water as if unwilling or unable to yield to winter. Williams concentrates on a single, sustained image to convey nature’s reluctance to change and the delicate tension between motion and stasis, life’s persistence even as the season presses toward decline.
Read Complete AnalysesIt is a willow when summer is over, a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson. The leaves cling and grow paler, swing and grow paler over the swirling waters of the river as if loth to let go, they are so cool, so drunk with the swirl of the wind and of the river -- oblivious to winter, the last to let go and fall into the water and on the ground.
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