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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO KNOW IN REVERIE THE ONLY PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ABSOLUTE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it bavaria? The house in the forest Last Line: In bavaria Subject(s): Bavaria | |||
Why was it Bavaria? The house in the forest was modest, a cabin, though rather substantial with latticework on the porch, a window in the gable. Each afternoon I walked to the village down a woodland path among great dark trees, across a bridge made of cedar poles. Patches of violets and forget-me-nots. At the cafe I smoked a cigar, drank coffee or lemonade, read a newspaper, wrote postcards, an occasional letter. I talked with the proprietor. I walked home at twilight and rested on the bridge, looking down into the stream, the weeds oscillating in clear water. I carried a stout walkingstick, a staff really, cut from a straight ash sapling. I did this for many years in my old age, and in the gable room wrote a number of better-than-average books. But I have never been in Bavaria. 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...LINES ON LEAVING A SCENE IN BAVARIA by THOMAS CAMPBELL BAVARIAN ROADSIDE by LEONORA SPEYER OBERAMMERGAU by DAVID JAMES JONES 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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