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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRNG DAY: BREAKFAST TABLE, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white
Subject(s): Spring; Food & Eating; Morning
First Line: In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white
Subject(s): Spring; Food & Eating; Morning
In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white.
It offers itself in flat surrender, tendering tastes, and smells, and colours,
and metals, and grains, and the white cloth falls over its side, draped and
wide. Wheels of white glitter in the silver coffee-pot, hot and spinning like
atherine-wheels, they whirl, and twirl-and my eyes begin to smart, the little
white, dazzling wheels prick them like darts. Placid and peaceful, the rolls
of bread spread themselves in the sun to bask. A stack of butter-pats, pyramidal,
shout orange through the white, scream, flutter, call: "Yellow! Yellow! Yellow!"
Coffee steam rises in a stream, clouds the silver tea-service with mist, and
twists up into the sunlight, revolved, involuted, suspiring higher and higher,
fluting in a thin spiral up the high blue sky. A crow flies by and croaks at
the coffee steam. The day is new and fair with good smells in the air.
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