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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVERS, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Keeping hope in the field of next year's harvest Last Line: Dreams, he finds her barren and love spent. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers | |||
Keeping hope in the field of next year's harvest, he does not love what she is, but what he thinks she should become. His present is the driest drought, his love a green mirage whose precincts he plots out with a calendar of crops and flowers suitable for the season he imagines, being her benevolent despot. She, meanwhile, unaware of flax and barley rowed across her breast, lies unhoed, unsown. Counting sheaves, pretending they're her own harvest, she garners in catastrophe from the fields of his accomplishment. Waking to a dust bowl of unsprouted dreams, he finds her barren and love spent. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KICKING THE LEAVES by DONALD HALL THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |
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