Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it were our privilege Last Line: Around, under the ground? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares | ||||||||
What if it were our privilege to sculpt our dreams of animals? But those shapes in the night come and go too quickly to be held in stone: but not to avoid these shapes as if dreams were only a nighttime pocket to be remembered and avoided. Who can say in the depths of his life and heart what beast most stopped life, the animals he watched, the animals he only touched in dreams? Even our hearts don't beat the way we want them to. What can we know in that waking, sleeping edge? We put down my daughter's old horse, old and arthritic, a home burial. By dawn with eye half-open, I said to myself, is he still running, is he still running around, under the ground? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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