Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not weary Last Line: Our laughter. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude | ||||||||
Are you not weary, great gold cross shining in the wind -- are you not weary of seeing the stars turning over you and the sun going to his rest and you frozen with a great lie that leaves you rigid as a knight on a marble coffin? -- and you? higher, still, robin, untwisting a song from the bare top-twigs, are you not weary of labor, even the labor of a song? Come down -- join me for I am lonely. First it will be a quiet pace to ease our stiffness but as the west yellows you will be ready! Here in the middle of the roadway we will fling ourselves round with dust lilies till we are bound in their twining stems! We will tear their flowers with arms flashing! And when the astonished stars push aside their curtains they will see us fall exhausted where wheels and the pounding feet of horses will crush forth our laughter. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VINEGAR AND OIL by JANE HIRSHFIELD AT THE GALLERIA SHOPPING MALL by TONY HOAGLAND VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN GOODBYE TO A POLTERGEIST by MARK JARMAN SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD by MARK JARMAN THE LONELY MAN by RANDALL JARRELL ONE MINUS ONE MINUS ONE by JUNE JORDAN A CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
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