Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VANISHING RED, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is said to have been the last red man Last Line: Oh, yes, he showed john the wheel pit all right Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America | ||||||||
He is said to have been the last Red Man In Acton. And the Miller is said to have laughed - If you like to call such a sound a laugh. But he gave no one else a laughter's license. For he turned suddenly grave as if to say, "Whose business, - if I take it on myself, Whose business - but why talk round the barn? - When it's just that I hold with getting a thing done with." You can't get back and see it as he saw it. It's too long a story to go into now. You'd have to have been there and lived it. Then you wouldn't have looked on it as just a matter Of who began it between the two races. Some guttural exclamation of surprise The Red Man gave in poking about the mill Over the great big thumping shuffling mill-stone Disgusted the Miller physically as coming From one who had no right to be heard from. "Come, John," he said, "you want to see the wheel pit?" He took him down below a cramping rafter, And showed him, through a manhole in the floor, The water in desperate straits like frantic fish, Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails. Then he shut down the trap with a ring in it That jangled even above the general noise, And came up stairs alone - and gave that laugh, And said something to a man with a meal-sack That the man with the meal-sack didn't catch - then. Oh, yes, he showed John the wheel pit all right | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD INDIAN by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE by JOSEPHINE MILES ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ by PAUL MULDOON PARAGRAPHS: 9 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING by HAYDEN CARRUTH AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION by DIANE DI PRIMA |
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