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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I'VE NOTHING TO OFFER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But forgiveness Last Line: Of earth, air and water Subject(s): Forgiveness | |||
Overhead the elevated straddling the library made a cool shade in summer. Across the street, framed between two steel pillars, a dirt path led through a grass lot to a hint of country life: two-story wooden houses and chicken coops. When, father-voiced, the rumbling train passed above, the chickens cackled of their decisions and appetites. For me, age twelve, there were sounds of waterfall gods who lost themselves in mist below as motion without matter, effort without force, a heaven, on every hand the signs and portents of sublimity. I embraced its configurations but in human role, with faculties of sight, hearing and delight: my object pleasure and my meaning self. I awoke to the sound of my own steps. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS by GWENDOLYN BROOKS FORGIVING MY FATHER by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE RIGHTFUL ONE by DAVID IGNATOW WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD by DORIANNE LAUX THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED by EDWIN MARKHAM |
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