I Poetry is an etching by Beauty on a glass of words. II Silence is a prism catching the shafts of sound. III A Japanese Poem is a small man making an enormous shadow. IV Montmartre is a gaunt face watching the white-grey shadows of Paris do a slow waltz with the white-grey stones of Paris to a muffled, moaning music. V Thomas Hardy is Whistler's "Battersea Bridge." VI Gorki is a light playing so glaringly on a mass of ragamuffins, in a room of corners, that they become unreal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARAGRAPHS: 9 by HAYDEN CARRUTH MERELY STATEMENT by AMY LOWELL |