Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONOCLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: Reducing the universe Last Line: I prefer to try the other. Subject(s): Eyes; God; Universe | ||||||||
Reducing the universe to one round view, and terming it religion, is truly beyond my capacity: compressing one's view, like a hoop, for other folk to be whipped through -- squeezing the rim so tight that not even a gnat could manage the hole -- requires more strength than I have the pincers for: beholding what one is pleased to call, God, and greeting Him exclusively through the monocle of one's own righteousness -- that eye suffers astigmatism; I prefer to try the other. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN TO THE STARS by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS CONCLUSION by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST by MARVIN BELL BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA by ELENI SIKELIANOS I WILL SING YOU ONE-O by ROBERT FROST ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE by ROBERT FROST FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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