Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: The occident and the orient Last Line: Dares climb the other? Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America | ||||||||
The Occident and the Orient, posterior and posterior, sitting tight, holding fast the culture dumped by them onto primitive America, Atlantic to Pacific, were monumental colophons a disorderly country fellow, vulgar Long Islander, not overfond of the stench choking native respiration, poked down off the shelf with the aid of some mere blades of grass; and deliberately climbing up, brazenly usurping one end of the new America, now waves his spears aloft and shouts down valleys, across plains, over mountains, into heights: Come, what man of you dares climb the other? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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