Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOOD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a nut-wood's gloom. And overhead Last Line: Beating along my undiscovered mind. Subject(s): Forests; Traffic; Woods | ||||||||
I WALKED a nut-wood's gloom. And overhead A pigeon's wing beat on the hidden boughs, And shrews upon shy tunnelling woke thin Late winter leaves with trickling sound. Across My narrow path I saw the carrier ants Burdened with little pieces of bright straw. These things I heard and saw, with senses fine For all the little traffic of the wood, While everywhere, above me, underfoot, And haunting every avenue of leaves, Was mystery, unresting, taciturn. . . . . . . . . . . . And haunting the lucidities of life That are my daily beauty, moves a theme, Beating along my undiscovered mind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD by RANDALL JARRELL CHAMBER MUSIC: 20 by JAMES JOYCE ADVICE TO A FOREST by MAXWELL BODENHEIM A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST by AMY LOWELL JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY IN BLACKWATER WOODS by MARY OLIVER THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO by MARY OLIVER |
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