The Night-Blooming Jasmine (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Audre Lorde
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
The Poem
Audre Lorde’s poem “The Night-Blooming Jasmine” expresses its author’s meditation on the “Lady of the Night,” a fragrant, night-flowering jasmine plant native to the tropics, whose white, five-cleft blooms resemble stars. The poem is made up of a series of reflections on a night-blooming jasmine the speaker encounters “along the searoad” between her “house” and “tasks” that lie before her. In five stanzas of five to twelve lines of free verse, the speaker describes how the sight of the flowers opening at night triggers or “calls down” the...
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