Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEAD DEER, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover Last Line: Cruel luxuriance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deer; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence | ||||||||
Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover, a rotted deer curled, shaglike, after a winter so cold the trees split open. I think she couldn't keep up with the others (they had no place to go) and her food, frozen grass and twigs, wouldn't carry her weight. Now from bony sockets, she stares out on this cruel luxuriance. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PUT BACK THE DARK by MARVIN BELL PUTREFACTION by CHARLES BUKOWSKI WHAT COULD HAPPEN by DORIANNE LAUX SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES by KAREN SWENSON SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT by JOHN UPDIKE THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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