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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OVERTONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some listening were certain they could hear Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mourning; Music & Musicians; Bereavement | |||
Some listening were certain they could hear through the notes summoned from the strings one more following at a distance low but clear a resonance never part of the score not noticed during the rehearsals nor prayed into the performance and yet here with the first note it had been waiting for holding silent the iced minors of fear the key of grief the mourning from before the names were read as they were falling near the sound of what was not there anymore all made the chords that in a later year some still believed that they could overhear echoing music played during a war First published in The Kenyon Review, Volume 22 #1 (Winter 2000). www.kenyonreview.org/roth | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART TO THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN |
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