|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM THE MISERY OF DON JOOST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I have finished my combat with the sun;
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: I have finished my combat with the sun;
Subject(s): Mortality
I have finished my combat with the sun;
And my body, the old animal,
Knows nothing more.
The powerful seasons bred and killed,
And were themselves the genii
Of their own ends.
Oh, but the very self of the storm
Of sun and slaves, breeding and death,
The old animal-
The senses and feeling, the very sound
And sight, and all there was of the storm-
Knows nothing more.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
WISE MEN IN THEIR BAD HOURS by ROBINSON JEFFERS
READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER by JANE KENYON