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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOJOURN IN THE WHALE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading Last Line: The pathrise automatically. Subject(s): Jonah (bible) | |||
TRYING to open locked doors with a sword, threading the points of needles, planting shade trees upside down; swallowed by the opaqueness of one whom the seas love better than they love you, Ireland you have lived and lived on every kind of shortage. You have been compelled by hags to spin gold thread from straw and have heard men say: "There is a feminine temperament in direct contrast to ours which makes her do these things. Circumscribed by a heritage of blindness and native incompetence, she will become wise and will be forced to give in. Compelled by experience, she will turn back; water seeks its own level": and you have smiled. "Water in motion is far from level." You have seen it when obstacles happened to bar the pathrise automatically. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT by LEONORA SPEYER JONAH AND THE WHALE by ANONYMOUS JONAH AND THE WHALE by VIOLA MEYNELL JONAH AND THE WHALE by UNKNOWN I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE PEDANTIC LITERALIST by MARIANNE MOORE TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT by MARIANNE MOORE NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE |
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