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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROWHEAD, by ALICE MONKS MEARS First Line: Not alone fate fathers the generation of the brave Last Line: The shards of a colored bowl that held the kitchen plant? Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines | |||
Not alone fate fathers the generation of the brave, but he is around, highly entertained, the sardonic well-groomed gentleman with long nails, impartially amused by the celestial or demonic. So let him take the blame of the bitter brave who curse him for their glory, wanting to curse whatever it was that carved them down to the stubborn form of courage, made them heroes, they desiring it never, whatever it was that chose them for the terrible hour, for the prowhead to breast fiery seas and monstrous oceans, whatever it was that thrust them into the waves of these years of incalculable currents and motions. When out of the years' clay they wanted only to fashion a little juggling god of laughter or passion, why should it be they who move through the shattered house in the dank dawn, through piled slate and glass and beams aslant, why they who stoop (unconquered) to pick up the shards of a colored bowl that held the kitchen plant? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON NOTES FOR AN ELEGY by WILLIAM MEREDITH THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND A SONG FOR HEROES by EDWIN MARKHAM AFTER THE BROKEN ARM by RON PADGETT PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR by WALLACE STEVENS AGAINST THE MISER MIND by ALICE MONKS MEARS |
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