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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PELICANS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four pelicans went over the house Last Line: Pelicans. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pelicans | |||
Four pelicans went over the house, Sculled their worn oars over the courtyard: I saw that ungainliness Magnifies the idea of strength. A lifting gale of seagulls followed them; slim yachts of the element, Natural growths of the sky, no wonder Light wings to leave sea; but those grave weights toil, and are powerful, And the wings torn with old storms remember The cone that the oldest redwood dropped from, the tilting of continents, The dinosaur's day, the lift of new sea lines. The omnisecular spirit keeps the old with the new also. Nothing at all has suffered erasure. There is life not of our time. He calls ungainly bodies As beautiful as the grace of horses. He is weary of nothing; he watches airplanes; he watches pelicans. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE REASON FOR THE PELICAN by JOHN CIARDI THE FRIGATE PELICAN by MARIANNE MOORE THE PELICANS MY FATHER SEES by SISTER MARIS STELLA ODE TO THE PELICAN by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 1. PELICANS by WINIFRED WALDRON WAR OF THE PELICANS by PETER DAVISON PERSEPHONE IN THE UNDERWORLD: 3. THE PELICAN by DEBORA GREGER BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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