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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING II, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the child's eyes glaze with memory where the man's glaze Last Line: Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids | |||
where the child's eyes glaze with memory where the man's glaze with foreknowledge and how they darken and alter to vacancy as when the shifting breeze ramps like a closing shutter on the deeplighted bay look in the woman's eyes bravely in her moment of rapture when the skies loom between her lashes or look there in the mirror at those eyes bend closer and closer still look in the black pupils where other eyes appear and in them others infinitely infinitely pools of incomprehension look the fear is nothing look the courage nothing the song has no consequence look look it is here nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. 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...VERS DE SOCI??T?? by PHILIP LARKIN AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS by LARRY LEVIS CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING I by HAYDEN CARRUTH NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS by GREGORY ORR POEM ABOUT NOTHING by GREGORY ORR THE LAST WISH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA 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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