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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage Last Line: The ever and never known the pivot the horizon Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | |||
Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage rising eternally near crag above crag this is the upthrust A tossed village lies like a trampled flag at its feet and up there look the ridge sloughs off the stunted firs like the very selvedge of earth itself raveled and frayed where the ground peels back Call it the void pulled inside out or the universal grain in a mindless exultation sprung from the notgrain Its climbers learn footholds too far apart and their own impatience and death in the dark drops Call it a comprising call it the center and edge of every relation the journeyer's pivot and the journeyer's horizon. 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...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH 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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