Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMI GREEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not 'a youth with hoary head and haggard eye' Last Line: Is just arrested growth. Subject(s): Youth | ||||||||
NOT "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye," But an old man with a smooth skin And black hair! I had the face of a boy as long as I lived, And for years a soul that was stiff and bent, In a world which saw me just as a jest, To be hailed familiarly when it chose, And loaded up as a man when it chose, Being neither man nor boy. In truth it was soul as well as body Which never matured, and I say to you That the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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