Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
106 PA RT O N E Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood ’s woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Youn ...
NATURE VERSUS HISTORY IN W. B. YEATS 107 tree, flower, bird. Instead, like Blake (whose poems he published) and Hardy, he makes ...
108 PA RT O N E Another brilliant bird turns emblem in Yeats’s apocalypse “The Second Coming”: Turning and turning in the wideni ...
NATURE VERSUS HISTORY IN W. B. YEATS 109 and anecdote (a “house burned,” a soldier “trundled down the road”) blending with broad ...
Lapis lazuli stone, Chinese, eighteenth century. Courtesy of David Parker, and of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Gráinne Yeats. ...
NATURE VERSUS HISTORY IN W. B. YEATS 111 moves deeper than possible into this carved lapis. One man “Carries a musical instrumen ...
112 PA RT O N E near Sligo where he spent his childhood. Embedding place-names in verse, the poem ends: Under bare Ben Bulben’s ...
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115 “strangeness from my sight” Robert Frost and the Fun in How You Say a Thing o forth, under the open sky, and list / To Natur ...
116 PA RT T W O “dalliance,” and brutality mixed with fervor toward his son. During the boy’s early years his home moved constan ...
ROBERT FROST AND THE FUN IN HOW YOU SAY A THING 117 troublings over mortality and divinity. Shakespeare ’s plays gave him the vi ...
118 PA RT T W O Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form a ...
ROBERT FROST AND THE FUN IN HOW YOU SAY A THING 119 There he read more Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wanted to live de ...
120 PA RT T W O Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: Whydo they make good neighbors? ...
ROBERT FROST AND THE FUN IN HOW YOU SAY A THING 121 or mundane: “through a tree / Toward heaven”; “two or three / Apples.” Just ...
122 PA RT T W O And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in. For I have had to ...
123 “white water rode the black forever” Frost and the Necessity of Metaphor ummer 1914 saw war looming, as Frost ’s North of Bo ...
124 PA RT T W O Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favo ...
FROST AND THE NECESSITY OF METAPHOR 125 say that “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” came in one go, and his voice does start ...
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