Words for the Wind (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore Roethke
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Suffering, Love or romance, Nature, Dancing or dancers, Intuition, Rationalism, Skin
The Poem
“Words for the Wind” is a love poem in four parts. In it, Theodore Roethke demonstrates his characteristic concern for and sense of union with nature, his questing curiosity about the meaning of things, and finally his belief that meaning is ultimately discovered through feeling and intuition, not through rationality. Yet what really helps the speaker to become one with all and to answer the questions he asks (or, really, to recognize the unimportance of the questions or the answers) is love felt for and returned by another person.
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