ratanapan poem 2
Quiet Evening (1996)
By Louise Glück
Louise Gluck is an American poet, who was born in 1943, and is actually still alive today. Her poetry has been described by many as personal, intimate, and gripping. “Quiet Evening” was written as a series of poems from the poetic compilation Meadowlands, published for the first time in 1996. “Quiet Evening” provides hints of reconciliation from the point of betrayal of the speaker being lead into the formidable dark, up to the intimate comparison of two of them to the unbreakable relationship of Penelope and Odysseus. The speaker takes an uneasy situation to turns it into one of trust and love. Gluck uses the illustrated darkness as a trial of the relationship between the speaker and her significant other. The result of the trial is a strengthened relationship with the likes of Penelope and Odysseus, finding reconciliation of the dark situation within each other. Although the initial environment is apprehensive, when they face it together the reader receives the feeling that everything will turn out fine.
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You take my hand; then we're alone
in the life-threatening forest. Almost immediately
we're in a house; Noah's
By Louise Glück
Louise Gluck is an American poet, who was born in 1943, and is actually still alive today. Her poetry has been described by many as personal, intimate, and gripping. “Quiet Evening” was written as a series of poems from the poetic compilation Meadowlands, published for the first time in 1996. “Quiet Evening” provides hints of reconciliation from the point of betrayal of the speaker being lead into the formidable dark, up to the intimate comparison of two of them to the unbreakable relationship of Penelope and Odysseus. The speaker takes an uneasy situation to turns it into one of trust and love. Gluck uses the illustrated darkness as a trial of the relationship between the speaker and her significant other. The result of the trial is a strengthened relationship with the likes of Penelope and Odysseus, finding reconciliation of the dark situation within each other. Although the initial environment is apprehensive, when they face it together the reader receives the feeling that everything will turn out fine.
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You take my hand; then we're alone
in the life-threatening forest. Almost immediately
we're in a house; Noah's
grown and moved away; the clematis after ten years
suddenly flowers white.
More than anything in the world
I love these evenings when we're together,
the quiet evenings in the summer, the sky still light at this hour.
So Penelope too the hand of Odysseus,
not to hold him back but to impress
this peace on his memory:
from this point on, the silence through which you move
is my voice pursuing you.
suddenly flowers white.
More than anything in the world
I love these evenings when we're together,
the quiet evenings in the summer, the sky still light at this hour.
So Penelope too the hand of Odysseus,
not to hold him back but to impress
this peace on his memory:
from this point on, the silence through which you move
is my voice pursuing you.
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