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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN IMPORTER, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production; Far East; East Asia; Orient | |||
Mrs. Someone's been to Asia, What she brought back would amaze ye. Bamboos, ivories, jades, and lacquers, Devil-scaring firecrackers, Recipes for tea with butter, Sacred rigmaroles to mutter, Subterfuge for saving faces, A developed taste in vases, Arguments too stale to mention Gainst American intervention; Most of all the mass production Destined to prove our destruction. What are telephones, skyscrapers, Safety razors, Sunday papers, But the silliest evasion Of the truths we owe an Asian? But the best of her exhibit Was a prayer machine from Tibet That by brook power in the garden Kept repeating Pardon, pardon; And as picturesque machinery Beat a sundial in the scenery - The most primitive of engines Mass producing with a vengeance. Teach those Asians mass production? Teach your grandmother egg suction. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DIATRIBE OF THE KITE; FOR KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE by NORMAN DUBIE GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS by AMY LOWELL ASIAN BIRDS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES MAHMOUD by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT THE NOBLEMAN AND THE PENSIONER by GOTTLIEB KONRAD PFEFFEL THE LEPER (2) by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE FOUR ZOAS: THE SONG OF LOS by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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