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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING I, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Changing figures. The dionysian child Last Line: It is contrived it is actual it is a man Subject(s): Ontology; Being | |||
Changing figures The dionysian child the woman in her assurances the old town in its hallucinations spilled like dominoes the mountain and the void the moon and the sun whirled from misthidden vale to vale and the day coiled in the forest A word is like an ant dragging a dead spider the meant and the unmeant So upon ragged changing seas the poem which is a ship buoyed by its hollowness on the abstruse coordinates of meaning carries the loop of its horizon forever with it Scan this circle vanishing across the deep It is contrived it is actual it is a man. 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...CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING II by HAYDEN CARRUTH TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. BELIEVE YOURSELF A WHOLE by EDWARD CARPENTER 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 ABANDONED RANCH, BIG BEND by HAYDEN CARRUTH ADOLF EICHMANN by HAYDEN CARRUTH ALMANACH DU PRINTEMPS VIVAROIS by HAYDEN CARRUTH AN EXPATIATION ON THE COMBINING OF WEATHERS AT THIRTY .... by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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