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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DESOLATE FIELD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast and grey, the sky Last Line: Yearning silently over me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | |||
Vast and grey, the sky is a simulacrum to all but him whose days are vast and grey, and -- In the tall, dried grasses a goat stirs with nozzle searching the ground. -- my head is in the air but who am I . . ? And amazed my heart leaps at the thought of love vast and grey yearning silently over me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL |
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