Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WALLS, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poet Analysis First Line: The wall of his environment Last Line: Twit-tittering on the seething coals. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Walls | ||||||||
The wall of his environment, Altho' Chinese, was not so high He could not see tiled roofs of kings Like dragon backs against the sky. And so, spurred on by discontent, An eagle pen that lent him wings Transported him across the wall To tea in gardens with the Mings. Thus staged, his long but static fall Made drama for ancestral ghosts, Whose proud transgressions raised the wall Of ego, which with echoed boasts Had in past epochs starved their souls With windy oats of self-applause; Till they had met great grandpapas Twit-tittering on the seething coals. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS by ANNE CARSON COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING by NORMAN DUBIE ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL by ROBERT FROST UP AGAINST IT by ELEANOR WILNER BARTLEBY AT THE WALL by JACK GILBERT THE WOLD WALL by WILLIAM BARNES BLACK ROSES by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. |
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