Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAPITAL SQUARE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poet Analysis First Line: Danger is silent in the bloodless square Last Line: Harden and echo at a statue's voice. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Statues | ||||||||
Danger is silent in the bloodless square: the boxing brute of stone half hides his fist, the moon in the haunt of weight is a heavy ghost and the sun is a toastmaster, the punishing façades disguise their skill and fountains play before the parliament of standstill. You may go freely through the paved immense slowness, the architectural snow; admire the statues stiffened in the silence with No upon their lips and the heart at zero, until having made some circles you understand you are a pigmy held in a stone hand. No warmth is here, only an abstract good; your dead shall never bleed nor your love return; children ask here no gifts nor the hungry food. ... but now and then four walls of added men swing into symmetry, with a stone noise harden and echo at a statue's voice. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAMBERGER REITER by MARY KINZIE FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN by CATE MARVIN STATUE AND BIRDS by LOUISE BOGAN STATUES IN THE PARK by BILLY COLLINS STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE by RON PADGETT DESERT by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON |
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