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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DEAD JOURNALIST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The busy trade of life is over now Last Line: Lost in time's void! Thou wind of nothingness! Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists | |||
THE busy trade of life is over now, The intricate toil which was so hard for bread, The strife each day renewed 'neath this poor brow By this frail hand to be interpreted, The zeal, the forethought, the heart's wounds that bled, The anger roused, the stark blow answering blow, All that was centred in that aching head Of black necessity for weal or woe. —Its use, its purpose what? Nay, less than none, More blindly naught than even the dull clay Left on this bed, its corporal union done, Which we must shovel to its grave to-day. O soul of Man, thou pilgrim of distress Lost in Time's void! Thou wind of nothingness! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS RISES GREATLY IN TIME OF WAR by EVE MERRIAM IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS by MARGARET ATWOOD METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS by GEOFFREY HILL THE INTERVIEW by DAVID IGNATOW THE MORNING STAR by PRIMUS ST. JOHN ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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