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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEME AND VARIATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, man | |||
I Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, 1nan1 fire and water, earth and air all things alter even as I behold, all things alter, the stranger said. Alter, become a something more, a something less. Are the reveling shadows of a changing permanence. Are, are not and same and other, the stranger said. II I sense, he said, the lurking rush, the sly transience flickering at the edge of things. I've spied from the corner of my eye upon the striptease of reality. There is, there is, he said, an imminence that turns to curiosa all I know·· that changes light to rainbow darknes wherein God waylays us and empowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOMORROW by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY by EDMUND SPENSER THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by MARIA ABDY EXPECTATION by GLADYS BRIERLY ASHOUR EVENING TRAINS by MARY TRUE AYER ON THE PICTURE OF LUCRETIA STABBING HERSELF by PHILIP AYRES CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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