The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 7. Give me your hand

What a magnificent poem. The first reading left me breathless; the second saw me still searching for words to describe my reaction. The use of season and color to describe the immensity of emotion is intense and effective. 

What @Parker Owens said.

The emotion in this is beautiful and expressed via autumn colors and the bursts of changes taking place in the foliage and countryside.  The beauty of that time of year, combined with love is expressed clearly and artistically. 

On 2/25/2024 at 8:23 AM, Parker Owens said:

What a magnificent poem. The first reading left me breathless; the second saw me still searching for words to describe my reaction. The use of season and color to describe the immensity of emotion is intense and effective. 

Thank you, Parker. This poem must have exerted a lot of influence on later Expressionist poets. I say that because the theme of a landscape beating with the red-blooded passions of their human observers comes back time and time again. In a way, Schwabe's poem is similar to those from the Romantic Era, but by her insistence on 'raw emotions', she is adding this former trope of a poetic stroll in nature to the new toolbox of modern poets.

At least that's what I think    

On 2/25/2024 at 9:41 AM, ReaderPaul said:

What @Parker Owens said.

The emotion in this is beautiful and expressed via autumn colors and the bursts of changes taking place in the foliage and countryside.  The beauty of that time of year, combined with love is expressed clearly and artistically. 

Thank you, ReaderPaul. The back and forth of autumn and spring in the poem is one of the most interesting aspects of it, in my opinion. Toni Schwabe seems to be doing it in almost a regular rise and fall, as if creating a current of excitement for the reader in the structure of the poem itself. It's very skillfully done