Ariel

I think this poem is about the dangers of inactivity. If poems have messages then this poem Ariel might be a message about the virulent effects of sloth and inactivity. The title of the poem is Ariel. Ariel is a Hebrew word or name meaning lion of God. 

 Simple inactivity or suspension of activity during darkness causes the lioness of God to become similar to the blue without substance. This could mean that although the color blue is associated with the sky and sea without the accompanying sense of vastness and expanse it is without substance. It looks like the sky but does not have the substance of the sky. If the substance within us is not cultivated we will be without substance as the substanceless blue. 

What has caused this? 

A clue is the word furrow. A furrow is a trench in the soil. The trench splits. Or maybe the trench is the place where new seeds that are meant to split the lioness of God from her lioness of God-ness are planted. Another clue is the word pivot. A pivot of heels and knees--a furrow. A pivot is the point on which something hangs. It could also mean a shift or turn. 

A furrow or trench in the soil, "splits and passes, the sister to the brown arc of the neck they cannot catch."  

The poet removes dead hands and dead stringencies from the gift of God-Godiva. The gift of God is revealed when the dead hands and the dead rules are peeled away from the gift of God. Stringencies are strict  rules. Inactivity could also be caused by the stringency. 

Foam is the mass of small bubbles that form on or in liquid due to agitation or fermentation.  Now the poet bubbles up into wheat and in the glitter of seas becomes a child. A child's cry melts in the wall. The poet is an arrow.  Could mean a child. The poet is the dew that flies suicidal at one with the drive into the red eye which is the cauldron of the morning. A cauldron is a cooking pot in which witches or druids cook potions. The red eye is the cooking pot. The morning or day is the cooking pot. The journey into the cooking pot. The poem is pessimistic because although the poet is dew like Godiva  the poet suicidally drives into the red cauldron of the morning. 

What I like most about this poem is the name Ariel which means the lioness of God and also the reference to the gift of God which is Godiva. Ariel is also the name of the book which is this collection of poems. The gift of God is revealed when the dead hands and the dead rules are peeled away from the gift of God. Stringencies are strict and limiting rules. 

The oneness with the substanceless blue is changed into wheat. But although the poet foams into wheat becomes an arrow, or like a child and a dew drop it becomes suicidal when it drives into the red eye which is described as the cauldron of the morning. 

Is the process being repeated- that of becoming similar to the blue or the red. 

It would be suicidal to do the same thing as before. 

The inactivity should not be repeated. 

Is this poem a warning?