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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dull conclave of crows'-footed faces Last Line: Emptying a smile on redkey, indiana. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen | |||
The dull conclave of crows'-footed faces Twitches as the man with one dollar enters; It moves a soilured delicate hand, as if Displaying a marketable emotion on a string. Hear the tom-toms, smell the warm rank beer, See the curve of the synthetic waggle, Let ancient visions impinge the modern retina, Polish the image of a burnished Phrygia. For I have heard somewhere, on desolate And traditionally inspiring shores, Small ladies, possessing subtile bellies, knew heroes Whose creed brooked no chaste asyndeton; And somewhat later, in the cool of a fern wood, One heard the grimly clatter of shields Who threaded tapestries in the sheathing dark; The courtyard rang with a feutering of spears - The emotion is marketable indeed In spite of crows'-feet, which Strato doesn't mention: Showing the contemporary irrelevancy of myth And the understanding of a man with one dollar. Make gracious attempts at sanctifying Jenny, Supply cosmetics for the ordering of her frame, Think of her as Leda, as a goddess, Emptying a smile on Redkey, Indiana. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIZARRE by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE BORED TO CHORESIS by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE CALIDUS JUVENTA? by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE CUL-DE-SAC by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE EDGES by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE ELEGY FOR EUGENESIS by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE EUTHANASIA by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE FAIR CUIRASS SHATTERED by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE HORATIAN EPODE TO THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE |
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