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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GRETA, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Our age has caesars, though they wear silk hats Last Line: Differ only in name and class and year. Subject(s): Leadership; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | |||
Our age has Caesars, though they wear silk hats And govern vaster continents than Rome, The bishops tend their bellies and wear spats And lie like ancient oracles: at home Circe, bored with triumphs on the stage, Sets the table and pours out the wine, Tries twenty-eight expressions to engage, Bewitch and rob her smug enamored swine. If we have prophets calling for revolts Who shake the skies until the old worlds crack, For every hero there are twenty dolts, And Tartuffe hovers behind Lenin's back: And Madame Pompadour and you, my dear, Differ only in name and class and year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI REMEMBERED MUSIC by JOSEPH FREEMAN |
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