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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE SELF-CONSCIOUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: I know that you are self-conscious Last Line: Beside you, over your shoulder? Subject(s): Self-consciousness | |||
I KNOW that you are self-conscious, That you are troubled—haunted—tormented. It is not pleasant! But how wonderful is the mere sense of space in the world—after the sick-chamber and days of illness! And how wonderful is the sense of measureless space in the soul, and of freedom, henceforth inalienable! Look then in the glass once more, and satisfy yourself thoroughly about it: Do you not see, this time, that there is some one else looking in it also Beside you, over your shoulder? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SUBURBANS by CAROLYN KIZER WHAT THE BONES KNOW by CAROLYN KIZER WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE by CAROLYN KIZER CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT by GREGORY ORR A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME by CAROLYN KIZER A LOVE BARGAINE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT CIVILL WARR by JOSEPH BEAUMONT TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1 by EDWARD CARPENTER AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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