![]() ![]() Our possessions, our health, and even the people we love: all of these things will eventually go away, and with our spirits so dim, we don't even have the ability to recognize how beautiful these "transient" shadows are until they're gone. ![]() What are shadows in this instance? Well, they're things that come and go very quickly (transient), which is just like a lot of things in our lives. Again, the poem tries to convey the numbness of modern life by saying that the "light" of our souls isn't bright enough to create the fleeting, "transient beauty" of shadows. ![]() In other words, the speaker tells us here that there might still be a little bit of spirit (light) left in our modern lives, but it's dim at best. This "dim light" of unhappiness contrasts with the spiritual brightness that fills the pool in line 37.He falls right back into talking about how worrying about the past and future, or "time before and time after," is basically a place of "disaffection" or unhappiness that keeps us feeling crummy.The speaker is still trying to describe exactly how modern folks like ourselves can find spiritual peace. Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after In a dim light: neither daylight Investing shadow into transient beauty With slow rotation suggesting permanence Nor darkness to purify the soul Emptying the sensual with deprivation Cleansing affection from the temporal. ![]()
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