Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONQUEST (DEDICATED TO F. W.), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, chilly colors Last Line: Into the overpowering white! Subject(s): Sun; Sky | ||||||||
Hard, chilly colors: straw-grey, frost-grey the grey of frozen ground: and you, O Sun, close above the horizon! It is I holds you -- half against the sky half against a black tree trunk icily resplendent! Lie there, blue city, mine at last -- rimming the banked blue-grey and rise, indescribable smoky-yellow into the overpowering white! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SMALL SELF AND THE LIBERAL SELF by JAMES GALVIN BUILDING A PAINTING A HOME by BOB HICOK HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI by ANSELM HOLLO AUTUMN RAIN by KENNETH REXROTH A CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
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