Monday 28 April 2014

Day 647: In Memory of Daffodils




'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may...' Robert Herrick said. In this case, it is daffodils, and Ted Hughes is the voice of a lesson learnt too late. Youth is a thing wasted on the young. Don't squander beauty or time or days, or meaning, or small significant little things. 

A powerful poem this one, the untimely tragedy of Sylvia Plath's death of course, cutting through every word.


Daffodils - Ted Hughes

Remember how we picked the daffodils?
Nobody else remembers, but I remember.
Your daughter came with her armfuls, eager and happy,
Helping the harvest. She has forgotten.
She cannot even remember you. And we sold them.
It sounds like sacrilege, but we sold them.
Were we so poor? Old Stoneman, the grocer,
Boss-eyed, his blood-pressure purpling to beetroot
(It was his last chance,
He would die in the same great freeze as you) ,
He persuaded us. Every Spring
He always bought them, sevenpence a dozen,
'A custom of the house'.



Besides, we still weren't sure we wanted to own
Anything. Mainly we were hungry
To convert everything to profit.
Still nomads-still strangers
To our whole possession. The daffodils
Were incidental gilding of the deeds,
Treasure trove. They simply came,
And they kept on coming.
As if not from the sod but falling from heaven.
Our lives were still a raid on our own good luck.
We knew we'd live forever. We had not learned
What a fleeting glance of the everlasting
Daffodils are. Never identified
The nuptial flight of the rarest epherma-
Our own days!
We thought they were a windfall.
Never guessed they were a last blessing.
So we sold them. We worked at selling them
As if employed on somebody else's
Flower-farm. You bent at it
In the rain of that April-your last April.
We bent there together, among the soft shrieks
Of their jostled stems, the wet shocks shaken
Of their girlish dance-frocks-
Fresh-opened dragonflies, wet and flimsy,
Opened too early. 


We piled their frailty lights on a carpenter's bench,
Distributed leaves among the dozens-
Buckling blade-leaves, limber, groping for air, zinc-silvered-
Propped their raw butts in bucket water,
Their oval, meaty butts,
And sold them, sevenpence a bunch-

Wind-wounds, spasms from the dark earth,
With their odourless metals,
A flamy purification of the deep grave's stony cold
As if ice had a breath- 


We sold them, to wither.
The crop thickened faster than we could thin it.
Finally, we were overwhelmed
And we lost our wedding-present scissors. 


Every March since they have lifted again
Out of the same bulbs, the same
Baby-cries from the thaw,
Ballerinas too early for music, shiverers
In the draughty wings of the year.
On that same groundswell of memory, fluttering
They return to forget you stooping there
Behind the rainy curtains of a dark April,
Snipping their stems. 


But somewhere your scissors remember. Wherever they are.
Here somewhere, blades wide open,
April by April
Sinking deeper
Through the sod-an anchor, a cross of rust. 

9 comments:

  1. Def. 수선화25 July 2020 at 04:02

    My heart aches as I read this poem, daffodils are brave and courageous to go out first after a cold winter. They are the first flowers of Spring. Like a child nurtured to spread their wings, daffodils are also ready to fly. But too early, immature and unstable you thought that you can just redo things the next time; we sometimes choose to act the way we want not thinking of any consequences and all that. We then realize youth is no longer ours, the last time we decided to cut our wings was actually the last string of hope and it'll never go back. This poem for me I think is about things that we take granted maybe time, people, or things that we are used to.

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