The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward gaze; Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! The "age demanded" chiefly a mold in plaster, Made with no loss of time, A prose cinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster Or the "sculpture" of rhyme. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MAPLE AND SUMACH by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE MILKING-MAID by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI SONNET: 60 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE by WALT WHITMAN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 64. AL-KAIYUM by EDWIN ARNOLD PSALM 81 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |