Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Help with meaning of this poem anyone?

Akash, this poem is descriptive of the winter season, a time when the operation of the moon and stars in the sky goes on much as it does in summer months, but the earth below is transformed. Gleaming fields and leafless shrubs tell a story of earth robbed of it energy and life, a world at once pristine, serene, and somber. A comparison is made between titmice hibernating and bees sleeping in the corolla of flowers during summer, two images that bear a superficial resemblance and yet differ in important ways: the sleep of bees is ephemeral, whereas the titmice will hibernate for months. The closing lines of the poem suggest that although the two seasons make of earth a very different place, they are in some small measure similar, and that over all of the differences below, the pristine procession of the planets, the eternal glow of the stars, and the phases of the moon march as before.

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