Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GESSNER, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | ||||||||
Whether, like Shelley, he is glorious youth; Or, like Euripides, singing in old age Great dreams, the poet guards the flame of truth; He feeds it with his love, his faith, his rage, That his own epoch and the years to come Might rise beyond dwarfed lusts, and that all men, Roused by his music, by the lofty drum Of his far prophecies, might revive again Our deepest hope, and our unconquered vision: And though men do not often understand, Drowning the first notes in confused derision, The poet lifts his liberating hand And in the light of dawn or darkest night Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI REMEMBERED MUSIC by JOSEPH FREEMAN |
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