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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEFINITIONS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM First Line: Poetry is an etching by beauty on a glass of words Last Line: Become unreal. | |||
I Poetry is an etching by Beauty on a glass of words. II Silence is a prism catching the shafts of sound. III A Japanese Poem is a small man making an enormous shadow. IV Montmartre is a gaunt face watching the white-grey shadows of Paris do a slow waltz with the white-grey stones of Paris to a muffled, moaning music. V Thomas Hardy is Whistler's "Battersea Bridge." VI Gorki is a light playing so glaringly on a mass of ragamuffins, in a room of corners, that they become unreal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROKEN LINES by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM CAPUT MORTUUM by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM CASTILIAN BODY by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM CLASSIC NIGHT by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM CONVERSATION by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM DAY PIECE by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM DEAN SWIFT by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM DEATH IS... by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM |
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