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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A MAN WORKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWD, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To gordon craig: your lynx's eye Last Line: There is a space, a fit gynmasium for action. Subject(s): Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) | |||
To Gordon Craig: Your lynx's eye Has found the men most fit to try To serve you. Ingenious creatures follow in your wake. Your speech is like Ezekiel's; You make one feel that wrath unspells Some mysteries—some of the cabals of the vision. The most propulsive thing you say, Is that one need not know the way, To be arriving. That foreword smacks of retrospect. Undoubtedly you overbear, But one must do that to come where There is a space, a fit gynmasium for action. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEDANTIC LITERALIST by MARIANNE MOORE TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT by MARIANNE MOORE NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC by MARIANNE MOORE APPELLATE JURISDICTION by MARIANNE MOORE COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER by MARIANNE MOORE DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT by MARIANNE MOORE |
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