Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROOK IN DROUGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willow catkins fall on the muddy pool Last Line: This universe dried into sands and stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | ||||||||
THE willow catkins fall on the muddy pool Churned up anew by cows who came to cool: And under shoal the sticklebacks, to whom The infant stream is like the whale's searoom, Or Amazon to a cayman; wondering there, They rise and thrilling sip that strange sharp Air. The plunging stone down from the dwarf bridge thrown Is Zeus's bolt -- Zeus shambles whistling on, And from their puny caverns they are seen Returning where the high god's wrath has been. Meantime a god indeed with fierce desire Drinks of their lessening waters, tongued with fire; He all along the willows' silver line Diminishes the pools that pleased the kine, And in a day will strew with tiny bones This universe dried into sands and stones. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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