Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PETIT THE POET, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick Last Line: While homer and whitman roared in the pines? Variant Title(s): Petit, The Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Protest | ||||||||
SEEDS in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel -- Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens -- But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof. Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Life all around me here in the village: Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth, Courage, constancy, heroism, failure -- All in the loom, and oh what patterns! Woodlands, meadows, streams and rivers -- Blind to all of it all my life long. Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG FOR MANY MOVEMENTS by AUDRE LORDE NAT BACON'S BONES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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