By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poetry is an engaging use of language. With nearly one million phrases at its command it isn't astounding that the English language have produced probably the most appealing, relocating and descriptive verse throughout the centuries. during this sequence we glance at person poets who've formed and stimulated their craft and cement their position in our history. during this quantity we glance on the works of Edwin Arlington Robinson who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry thrice together with the first actual ever presented.
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Qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 18 Here in Katmandu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 r37 l38 We have climbed the mountain. There’s nothing more to do. It is terrible to come down To the valley Where, amidst many flowers, One thinks of snow, As, formerly, amidst snow, Climbing the mountain, One thought of flowers, Tremulous, ruddy with dew, In the valley. One caught their scent coming down. It is difficult to adjust, once down, To the absence of snow.
It is the lurch and slur the world makes turning. It is the sound of turning, of a wheel Or hand-cranked grinder turning, though more pomp To this, more fiery particles struck off At each revolve; and the last turn reveals The darker side of what was light before. qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 33 Six stars shine through the dark, and half a moon! Night birds go spiralling upward with a flash Of silvery underwings, silver ascendings, The light of stars and of the moon their light, And water lilies open to the moon, The moon in wrinkles on the water’s face.
I publish of my folk how they have prospered With something in the eyes perhaps inherent, Or great-winged nose, bespeaking an acquaintance, Not casual and not recent, with a monster, Citing, as an example of some courage, That aunt, long gone, who kept one in a bird cage Thirty-odd years in shape of a green parrot, Nor overcame her fears, yet missed no feeding, Thrust in the crumbs with thimbles on her fingers. I had an uncle, long of arm and hairy, Who seldom spoke in any lady’s hearing Lest that his tongue should light on aught unseemly, Yet he could treat most kindly with us children Touching that beast, wholly imaginary, Which, hunting once, his hounds had got the wind of.