ship take a turn for the worse. Natures blossoming and sprouting reinforces love throughout the poem. The beauty of nature is a reflection on his marriage to Gloria and the beauty she has held throughout her lifetime. Even waking suggests the eternal nature of her beauty and his love for her. A rainbow is symbolic of a promise; Dawe is making a biblical allusion where God gave man the rainbow as a promise that he would never flood the world again. The rainbow in the poem appears where the persona (Dawe) is away from her (Gloria), at the office or in the garden. This rainbow is a symbol of a promise that the times Lying hunched in darkness are over. It could also represent the promise of marriage.Life, life cries my blood here Dawe is expressing how he would not have life without her. He is longing for her. The sound of my thirty-three years to hear his years, shows the reader that the events described are in the past and that the poem is a reflection.Drumming links back to the impatience described in the title, his emotion are like a monsoon flooding, the reader questions whether his monsoon of emotion has come too late for Gloria.There are many images in the poem of Blossoming, sprouting, climbing and growing but there are none that represent contentment, maturity or a sense of finality, the poem itself ends before it is completed. The last two lines of the poem come the closest to expressing his love for her, but whatever has happened to her has caused the growth of: the poem, his character and his love to end before they had reached maturity.It is through the experiences of the persona, and the context of Dawes life. That transforms my belief from, the poem is just about love, to, the poem is about lost love, loneliness, dashed hopes and living each day so that there will be nothing to apologize for tomorrow....
