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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Recitation by Author Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old age is Last Line: Piping of plenty. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers | |||
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind -- But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested, the snow is covered with broken seedhusks and the wind tempered by a shrill piping of plenty. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER WORKING SIXTY HOURS AGAIN FOR WHAT REASON by HICOK. BOB DAY JOB AND NIGHT JOB by ANDREW HUDGINS BIXBY'S LANDING by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY by DENISE LEVERTOV A CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
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