Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D, IN ASPIRATION VAST, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Quench'd by an early death Subject(s): Failure | ||||||||
To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers''"to over-ardent travelers''"to pilots on their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recognition''"I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument, High, high above the rest''"To all cut off before their time, Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire, Quench'd by an early death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG by GLYN MAXWELL FAILURES IN INFINITIVES by BERNADETTE MAYER ELLIPTICAL by HARRYETTE MULLEN I GO BACK TO MAY 1937 by SHARON OLDS MATER IN EXTREMIS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER ONE: 10 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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