Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldGregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt div Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art br /div |
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... stopped train . The poem is called “ Track , " and the track be- comes a figure for time , for the preordination with which our social life glistens pointlessly into the future , while the train in a moment of clarity - like an eye ...
... stopped train . The poem is called “ Track , " and the track be- comes a figure for time , for the preordination with which our social life glistens pointlessly into the future , while the train in a moment of clarity - like an eye ...
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... stopped trimeter , then a third line of rough iambic pentameter , and a final , shorter end - stopped line that delivers the rhyme : Nor the rain blur . It is as if she were starting over - and in a way she is , going back as she does ...
... stopped trimeter , then a third line of rough iambic pentameter , and a final , shorter end - stopped line that delivers the rhyme : Nor the rain blur . It is as if she were starting over - and in a way she is , going back as she does ...
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... Stopped chewing for a second ; sun Scarfed as in a heat - haze , dimmed . The dead go on before us , they Are sitting in God's house in comfort , We shall see them face to face- Plain as lettering in the chapels It was said , and for a ...
... Stopped chewing for a second ; sun Scarfed as in a heat - haze , dimmed . The dead go on before us , they Are sitting in God's house in comfort , We shall see them face to face- Plain as lettering in the chapels It was said , and for a ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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