Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The illustration Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs | ||||||||
THE illustration is nothing to you without the application. You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down into close conformity, and then walk back and forth on them. Sparkling chips of rock are crushed down to the level of the parent block. Were not "impersonal judgment in æsthetic matters, a metaphysical impossibility," you might fairly achieve it. As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you, but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER by ROBERT BLY PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN by MADELINE DEFREES CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH by NORMAN DUBIE I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE |
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