Annotation Of The Misunderstood Peacock's Poem

From the first stanza, the "knifed" horizon represents the straight skyline which marks the separation of the earth and sky. The author indicates that the “sun” “bleeds the sky” which symbolizes daybreak. The peacock stains are the variant colors of light seen in the sand as the light from the rays of the sun touches the many seashells/or rocks which illuminates as if it were the colors of a peacock’s feathers. The “murdered rocks” are the ones standing still by the coast enduring every pound of big waves as if it “refused to die”. The line "your absence touches my sad hands," refers to the metonymy of a memory that reminds one of a feeling that is personified by the “sad hands”. The author, uses “blinded” to represent the staggering to the unknown or the sense of not knowing what to do and then compares such feelings to that of “flags in the wreck of air”, which depicts an image of an unrepairable broken feeling that the author has.
This metaphorical imagery creates a picture of a large cluster of cirrocumulus cloud that look like the skulls in a catacomb from afar and personifies it as it slowly covers the land. In comparison to the huge shadow created by the clouds, “the stunted mourners” “and her” are humbled and a hyperbole of “universal tenderness” “drains” and “sucked” the personified “golden breath of sky”. This symbolizes how the clouds covered the light which gives color and life to the land stripping it “bare” of its