Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CROWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is raw with this one note Last Line: Starts for a moment from its dust. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Earth; World | ||||||||
Earth is raw with this one note, This tattered making of a song, Narrowed down to a crow's throat, Above the willow-trees that throng The crooking field from end to end. Fixed as the sun, the grave, this sound; Of what the weather has to spend As much a part as sky or ground. The primal yellow of that flower, The tansy making August plain; And the stored wildness of this hour It sucks up like a bitter rain. Miss it we would, were it not here, Simple as water, rough as spring, It hurls us at the point of spear, Back to some naked, early thing. Listen now. As with a hoof It stamps an image on the gust; Chimney by chimney a lost roof Starts for a moment from its dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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