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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids | |||
Dining with him at home, she looked between Tall candles at his strange, familiar face . . . A face still so bewildering when seen Across a table . . . or in any place Where he was shaken free from her, and she Must stifle old desires to beat the bars That caged their passionate identity, As distant and as secret as the stars. Sometimes, when he was shaving, she would stare Until his face seemed silly . . . like a word, Sane and distinct when other words are there . . . Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VERS DE SOCI??T?? by PHILIP LARKIN AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS by LARRY LEVIS CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING I by HAYDEN CARRUTH CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING II by HAYDEN CARRUTH NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS by GREGORY ORR POEM ABOUT NOTHING by GREGORY ORR THE LAST WISH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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