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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOUR A.M., by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour between night and day. Last Line: If we've got to go on living Subject(s): Night; Bedtime | |||
The hour between night and day. The hour between toss and turn. The hour of thirty-year-olds. The hour swept clean for rooster's crowing. The hour when the earth takes back its warm embrace. The hour of cool drafts from extinguished stars. The hour of do-we-vanish-too-without-a-trace. Empty hour. Hollow. Vain. Rock bottom of all the other hours. No one feels fine at four a.m. If ants feel fine at four a.m., we're happy for the ants. And let five a.m. come if we've got to go on living. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN ON DEATH, WITHOUT EXAGGERATION by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA |
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