I wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
The moor softens at the end, and so does the voice. “Quiet earth” offers rest against all the earlier storm. The imagery makes peace visible without stating it outright. Hope enters not as triumph but as stillness. The line hints that grudges can end, at least in memory. It leaves readers with calm after a hard tale.
I wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
The moor softens at the end, and so does the voice. “Quiet earth” offers rest against all the earlier storm. The imagery makes peace visible without stating it outright. Hope enters not as triumph but as stillness. The line hints that grudges can end, at least in memory. It leaves readers with calm after a hard tale.