Pool
death
transformation
free verse
dark
Out of the fire Came a man sunken To less than cinders, A tea-cup of ashes or so. And I, The gold in the house, Writhed into a stiff pool.
Pool - meaning Summary
Transformation Into Ashes
The short poem compresses a scene of physical and emotional dissolution. A man emerges from fire reduced to near nothing—cinders, a tea-cup of ashes—while the speaker, once described as gold in the house, has become a rigid, inert pool. The images suggest loss of vitality and identity after trauma or intense experience, contrasting valuable warmth with dull, fixed residue to evoke helplessness and transformation.
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