The land's sharp features seemed to be
10 The Century's corpse outleant,
11 His crypt the cloudy canopy,
12 The wind his death-lament.
13 The ancient pulse of germ and birth
14 Was shrunken hard and dry,
15 And every spirit upon earth
16 Seemed fervorless as I.
17 At once a voice arose among
18 The bleak twigs overhead
19 In a full-hearted
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The meaning of the poem
The speaker sets the scene with Bishop's characteristic attention to minute detail. She has accompanied her Aunt Consuelo to the dentist's office and waits for her through the dark afternoon or evening of Massachusetts in February. While she waits, she reads a copy of National Geographic, observing the pictures of naked women, a dead man “sl
The scene at Six D.O.G.S in Athens.
It’s hard to believe that only six or seven years ago, this shop-filled area — known by the somewhat unwieldy title of the “historic commercial triangle” — was a virtual wasteland for night life. Back then, after the bustling daytime crowds dispersed, the triangle went dark.
“Inthe center of Athens there was nothing, just these really c
the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. ①The river was there. It swirled against the log spiles of the bridge. ②Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom, and watched the trout keeping themselves steady inthe current with waverin
Lines Written Early Spring
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Though primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths,