Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REPETITIONS OF A YOUNG CAPTAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly Last Line: Walked toward him on the stage and they embraced Subject(s): War | ||||||||
A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly, The wind beat in the roof and half the walls. The ruin stood still in an external world. It had been real. It was something overseas That I remembered, something that I remembered Overseas, that stood in an external world. It had been real. It was not now. The rip Of the wind and the glittering were real now, In the spectacle of a new reality. II The people sat in the theatre, in the ruin, As if nothing had happened. The dim actor spoke. His hands became his feelings. His thick shape Issued thin seconds glibly gapering. Then faintly encrusted, a tissue of the moon Walked toward him on the stage and they embraced. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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