What does the poem in a dark time mean?

The meaning is that in order to figure out the truth of one’s life and identity, one has to engage with darkness. It’s only there, in the worst moments of one’s life or when one is surrounded by dark forces (physical or mental) that the truth can be determined.

WHO said in a dark time the eye begins to see?

Theodore Roethke
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” So wrote the poet Theodore Roethke. In this time of COVID-19, ours is indeed a dark time. Here, then, is a paradox. And here are some answers to the question: What could this darkness help us to see?

What does a steady storm of correspondence mean?

In the third stanza, the narrator proclaims that his madness permeates every part of his life. His experience of a “steady storm of correspondences” is relentless. … In the beginning of the fourth stanza, the narrator is consumed with dark desires, and his madness takes firm hold of him.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!

What is dark time?

1 the period from about the late 5th century a.d. to about 1000 a.d., once considered an unenlightened period. 2 (occasionally) the whole medieval period. Dark Continent.

Will there be singing in the dark times?

Will there also be singing? … Yes, there will be singing.