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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUMMER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze Last Line: Uniting all this knowledge with the earth Subject(s): Summer | |||
Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze blurs the eye Fulfillment is a word known to be lucky and hence not nice or perhaps a shade absurd Wise folk avoid it though they may speak of days of changing tension Softly the hayfields rise in the seedtime's changing browns and rusts to the green mountain where the farthest crests blur in purple boundaries like the child's outreaching perceptions and fall back in media gloria like the folds of the woman's experience The redwings the meadowlarks the treeswallows zoom in the warmth small and sudden pleasant interconnections uniting all this knowledge with the earth. 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...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |
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