Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CORRELATION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again that yellow dusk or light along Last Line: As consonant with the power as its bare trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
AGAIN that yellow dusk or light along The winter hills: again the trees' black claws Waiting and working by the bridge of space: Again the tower, among tombs a huge tomb; White scattered birds, a black horse in the meads, And the eel-track of the brown stream fringing by. Would understanding win herself my vote, Now, having known this crisis thirty years, She should decide me why it overwhelms My chart of time and history; should declare What in the spirit of a man long schooled To human concept and devotion dear, Upraised by sure example, undefiled By misery and defeat, still in the sun -- What stirs in him, and finds its brother-self, From that late sky. Again that sky, that tower These effigies and wizardries of chance, Those soundless vollies of pale and distant birds Have taken him, and from his whirring toils Made him as far away, as unconcerned, As consonant with the Power as its bare trees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOREFATHERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN REPORT ON EXPERIENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SOLUTIONS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE GIANT PUFFBALL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 11TH R.S.R. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BRIDGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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