Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
126 PA RT T W O helped make this poem Frost ’s favorite, “my best bid for remembrance.” Are these promises driven by love for hi ...
FROST AND THE NECESSITY OF METAPHOR 127 Coleridge in England ’s Lake District fastened on a scooped rock throwing up a ceaseless ...
128 PA RT T W O by then, couldn’t gauge such questions of the soul or of woman’s grace, or know how this man’s need was anything ...
FROST AND THE NECESSITY OF METAPHOR 129 the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the ...
130 e reminds us that words are alive, and not only alive but still half-wild and imperfectly domesticated.” Edward Thomas (1878 ...
ENGLAND THANKS TO EDWARD THOMAS 131 Long worn out, and the roller made of stone: Only the elm butt tops the nettles now. This co ...
132 PA RT T W O poems to write, drawn from passages such as this about pewits on Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge: His Winter and ...
ENGLAND THANKS TO EDWARD THOMAS 133 Without its team; it seemed it never would Move from the shadow of that single yew. A peacea ...
134 PA RT T W O For Thomas, no poems at all were possible in France. In March 1917, though, an anthology appeared in London with ...
ENGLAND THANKS TO EDWARD THOMAS 135 side, “A little bent over with care,” a woman rises from her knitting to look out at this “b ...
136 have seen cowboys; I have seen prairie dogs; hundreds of wild ducks, Indians in camp with smoke coming through their discolo ...
WINGS OF WALLACE STEVENS 137 spruce and fir in the forests that take on the appearance of everglades.” (This vision is a bit unc ...
138 PA RT T W O Breathing into these lines, their verbal music feels devotional. A vocal excite- ment, a sibilance as “the quail ...
WINGS OF WALLACE STEVENS 139 Moore admired William Carlos Williams’s imaginative “power over the actual.” It takes what Stevens ...
140 PA RT T W O For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothi ...
141 “broken / seedhusks” Reviving America with William Carlos Williams hings would really grow for him,” Flossie said about her ...
142 PA RT T W O “Kipp’s woods, just over the back fence, was our wilderness”—“my magic forest,” says Williams. “I knew every tre ...
REVIVING AMERICA WITH WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 143 A black, black cloud flew over the sun driven by fierce flying rain. Though he ...
144 PA RT T W O rhymes.” She “followed the American idiom.” As for the bard who claimed “I hear America singing, her varied caro ...
REVIVING AMERICA WITH WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 145 they are buffeted by a dark wind— But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has ...
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