with each new thing there comes change. With the birth of air comes to birth of water and how there was an original state but between this and the end there is a continuous sequence of changes and growth.

Theres an admiration, desire and passion that can come with change. There are new things to discover and, while change does have faults, your passions and admirations can change without your physical appearance changing. Feels like it refers more to an inner change with soul rather than an outward change of appearance and body.

is before us!

dawn

light

formatting allows for emphasis on emotions, impacts and even the consequences

silvery images: ideas of reflection and mirroring

could it relate to the soul of both the children and the mother? it is healthy for the children to leave the house, go to the movies, but it can also be for the mother to get the children out her space for a period of time

Almost feels like it could be either an internal rant or someone stressing to a new mother how they should allow their children to experience life in a certain way as to ensure they will not ruin the family

1902: "child"

It feels as though she giving these terms more meaning, even personifying them through capitalization and actions. - "sense" - "Mind" - "Heavens" -" Being" - "Space"

It feels as though she dies at the end, an abrupt end to her stream of consciousness

The language used is very lyrical through the repetition “Beating– beating” “Treading “Down, and down”

The weight of someone walking all over her “Creak across my soul” “Boots of Lead, again.”

very clearly discussing generations of the past

the opposite of work; leisure.

An image or representation of a woman's purity/virginity that can be full and pure one day but gone and “dead” the next.

Alluding (or rather very clearly stating) there is a defined time (or preferred) age in which one would lose their virginity. Further alluding to the timeline in which women bear children.

delay, waiting, loitering.