The speaker begins by suggesting to “let the light of the late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn.” The “light” can symbolize a divine being’s presence shining through her life. Meanwhile, the sun moving down is prophetic of the afternoon’s end moving onto the inevitable “evening.” Next stanza describes a cricket taking up chafing as a “woman takes up her needles and her yarn.” This is yet another image that suggests change. The act of sewing or anything pertaining to weaving can be tied to the twists and turns of life. Letting the “dew collect on the hoe abandoned long grass,” the “fox go back to its sandy den,” “the wind die down,” “the shed go black inside,” are all images that touch on the theme of surrender. The speaker is merely encouraging letting the natural flow of things because change is not necessarily bad. Fighting change, the speaker suggests, is futile because the inevitable cannot be
The speaker begins by suggesting to “let the light of the late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn.” The “light” can symbolize a divine being’s presence shining through her life. Meanwhile, the sun moving down is prophetic of the afternoon’s end moving onto the inevitable “evening.” Next stanza describes a cricket taking up chafing as a “woman takes up her needles and her yarn.” This is yet another image that suggests change. The act of sewing or anything pertaining to weaving can be tied to the twists and turns of life. Letting the “dew collect on the hoe abandoned long grass,” the “fox go back to its sandy den,” “the wind die down,” “the shed go black inside,” are all images that touch on the theme of surrender. The speaker is merely encouraging letting the natural flow of things because change is not necessarily bad. Fighting change, the speaker suggests, is futile because the inevitable cannot be