Drinking Corinthian Sun

Read 'Drinking Corinthian Sun' by 'Odysseus Elytis' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Drinking Corinthian Sun by Odysseus Elytis

Drinking Corinthian Sun 
Translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris 

Drinking Corinthian sun
Reading the old marbles
Striding through vineyard seas
Aiming the harpoon
At a votive fish that slips away
I found the leaves the sun's psalm learns by heart
The living shore desire rejoices
To open 

I drink water I cut fruit
I thrust my hand in the wind's foliage
Lemon trees irrigate the summer pollen
Green birds tear my dreams
I leave with a glance
A wide glance where the world again becomes
Beautiful from the beginning by the measures
of the heart. 

Form: Free verse

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