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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MILITARY PROGRESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You use your mind Last Line: Red. Variant Title(s): To The Soul Of 'progress' Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
YOU use your mind Like a millstone to grind Chaff. You polish it And with your warped wit Laugh At your torso, Prostrate where the crow Falls On such faint hearts As its god imparts, Calls And claps its wings Till the tumult brings More Black minute-men To revive again, War At little cost. They cry for the lost Head And seek their prize Till the evening sky's Red. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE |
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