Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy dreamer, who outwinged in flight Last Line: Bubble from depths of the icarian sea. Subject(s): Metaphysics | ||||||||
UNHAPPY dreamer, who outwinged in flight The pleasant region of the things I love, And soared beyond the sunshine, and above The golden cornfields and the dear and bright Warmth of the hearth, -- blasphemer of delight, Was your proud bosom not at peace with Jove, That you sought, thankless for his guarded grove, The empty horror of abysmal night ? Ah, the thin air is cold above the moon ! I stood and saw you fall, befooled in death, As, in your numbed spirit's fatal swoon, You cried you were a god, or were to be; I heard with feeble moan your boastful breath Bubble from depths of the Icarian sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS by CHARLES SIMIC THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS by WALT WHITMAN BODY AND SOUL: A METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENT by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT TIME SPACE by ISABEL FISKE CONANT THE CURTAINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE METAPHYSICIAN by WALLACE STEVENS METAPHYSICS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS AFTER A READING, CHARLES BUKOWSKI RETURNS & GIVES ME THE LOWDOWN .... by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY ALLEGRO NON TROPPO by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY |
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