Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FACADE: 1. PERE AMELOT, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars like quaking-grass grow in each gap Last Line: He knows there is nothing at all! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
THE stars like quaking-grass grow in each gap Of air (ruined castle wall) . . . Pere Amelot in his white nightcap Peered through . . . saw nothing at all. Like statues green from the verdigris Of the moon, two shadows join His shade, that under that castle wall sees The moon like a Roman coin. Out of his nightcap he drew three pence . . . Marie and Angelique pass The knife through Pere Amelot's back -- in the dense Bushes fly . . . he nods on the grass. The man with the lanthorn, a moment after, Picks up the moon that fell Like an Augustan coin when laughter Shook the hen-cackling grass of Hell; And the Public Writer inscribing his runes Beneath that castle wall, sees Three Roman coins as blackened as prunes -- And Pere Amelot slain for these! The stars like quaking-grass grow in each gap Of air -- ruined castle wall . . . Pere Amelot nods in his white nightcap . . . He knows there is nothing at all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL |
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