The wind begun to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low,—
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky
But overlooked my father's house,
lust quartering a tree.
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first stanza-The wind started making music on the grass..with threating tunes and then lower tunes. it was like fluging menace at earth and then at sky.
second stanza- The leaves withered from the tree and was flying away distantly because of the bad wind and scoops of dust was thrown away ..disturbing the road.
third stnza- the wagons were quick on the streets as they escaping from the bad weather and heading their destination perhaps. But the thunder was not in a hurry was there to stay. The lightining was a like bleak yellow ..subtle and then it showed a livid claw or a dangerous expression.
fourth stanza- The birds stayed indoors in nests and the cattles fled to their barns. Then it appeared as if one drop of gaint rain came down.
fifth stanza- then it appeared that the hands that held the dam parted and there was great rainfall. The waters wrecked the sky and everything under it.. except it overlooked the poet's father house, like the lust quartering a tree and providing shelter without lust. The last line is a metaphor of the poet's personal life and there could be lot of unsaid explanations.
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