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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE LEAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sky were green instead of blue its green Last Line: The actual world in the heyday of the leaves Subject(s): Leaves | |||
If the sky were green instead of blue its green would be the aspenleaves which have the same inlighted sweet intensity of tone and are the first to come in spring closefollowed by hickory ash hawthorn and the rest with butternut last Each has its own conception of green some yellow some blue some like the rockmaple reddish nor is any leaf precisely like any other Their tide assaults the mountain by way of the gradual foothills Greening breakers lunge and snap at the heights counting the evenings forest by forest until the waves splash on the far high summit announcing the actual world in the heyday of the leaves. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LEAF FALLS by MARION LOUISE BLISS THE SHAPE OF LEAVES by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF by MARVIN BELL SO IT'S TODAY by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR I COULD TAKE by HAYDEN CARRUTH A LEAF-TREADER by ROBERT FROST I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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