Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of Pictures Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens, Striking the board, falling in strong "L"s of colour. Reaching and striking in angles, holding lines in one colour. This board is alive with light; these pieces are living in form, Their moves break and reform the pattern: luminous green from the rooks, Clashing with "X"s of queens, looped with the knight-leaps. "Y" pawns, cleaving, embanking! Whirl! Centripetal! Mate! King down in the vortex, Clash, leaping of bands, straight strips of hard colour, Blocked lights working in. Escapes. Renewal of contest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BEAST OF BURDEN by MARIANNE MOORE PLANKED WHITEFISH by CARL SANDBURG PRE-EXISTENCE by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE DARK FOREST by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS IMPRESSION DU MATIN by OSCAR WILDE THE ETERNAL JUSTICE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH ON THE PORTRAIT OF A COLONEL; G.H.H. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |