The poem begins with a strange connotation of April. April is the month of spring, rebirth, harvests; but in that context April is defined as the cruellest month. In front of the spring men don't perceive the nature harmony and its fertility. The desolate setting is the projection of men's interiority.

For example Lillà are flowers that symbolize the nature fertility, but in that context, they are setting in a dead clime (Lilacs out of the dead land). Flowers are setting in a place that doesn't respect the characteristics of a natural place.

Lillà also are the connotation both of memory and of desire, so the natural function of flowers is setting in the past and in the future, but not in the present.

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?

With that expression the speaking voice wants to reflect to how the nature can continue his cycle, in a destroyed and an unnatural place. The nature force is in contraposition to men's desperation and desolation. Man sees the natural actions different from his action.

There are presented some elements that underline the men's indifference in front of the nature: men don't feel any emotions in front of it (The cricket no relief, and the dry stone no sound of water).

The nature isn't useful to men any more (And the dead tree gives no shelter). The only things that men perceive are shadows (there is shadow under this red rock); the shadow is the connotation of fear, so the only emotions that men feel is fear.