The Rain
By: Robert Creeley
The Rain
All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quiet, persistent rain.
What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it
that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me
something other than this,
something not so insistent—
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness.
Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out
of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.
About The Author
By the time he was five he had lost one of his eyes to a freak accident and his dad to a heart attack. His poems have a sense of the frailty they body can show and some sadness, but that is not the only things in his poem. Some are joyful and talk about the happiness of family. His poems are often comprised of short lines but deep meanings and emotions. He was greatly influenced by jazz music and action painters.
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poet/robert-creeleyInterpritations
"What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often?"
I think that in this line he is saying that what is it that he wants people to remember him by.
" Is it that never the ease, even the hardness, of rain falling will have for me something other than this,something not so insistent— am I to be locked in this final uneasiness."
I think that ion this line he is saying that is he to be trapped by what people think of now and that cant be changed, or can it.
"the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference."
By this i think that he is challenging the reader to get out of their "norm".