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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to think of a stone's gratitude Last Line: The primal act with this. So all things waken Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks | |||
Difficult to think of a stone's gratitude difficult for that matter to think of stone essences so various The white shade cast by the winter moon withdraws into covert places and the multiflood of earthlight often darkly or in tones subdued by interspersion slowly drenches the forest the brook the stone Birches step forward and the stone rises like an earthspirit snow dripping from its flanks burnished and new but scarcely changed a merit of the abiding between the banks marking the upstream from down Its warmth is taken from another source yet such warmthtaking links the primal act with this So the woods waken. 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...STONE'S SECRET by MARGARET AVISON NAMING FOR LOVE by HAYDEN CARRUTH OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE by ROBERT FROST THE EYE IN THE ROCK by JOHN HAINES THE HEAD ON THE TABLE by JOHN HAINES 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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