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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOW THEY GO ON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The otherwise beautiful girl Last Line: The same as if they heard and understood Subject(s): Beauty | |||
The otherwise beautiful girl With eyes closed Is not exactly sleeping. A reverie of dust obscures the photographs, Endures the unendurable furniture. If not to wake her, If not, softly, To ask what is left Under this last, most oceanic circumstance, The relatives lean in one by one, As if she might tell them How it is. Her ears are more like seashells now, Where those who loved her Bend to listen, listen, And move on, The same as if they heard and understood. 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...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS REARMAMENT by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN by ROBINSON JEFFERS A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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