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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANJINHOS; A COLLAGE CONSTRUCTION BY ELIZABETH BISHOP, by SAHAR TCHAITCHIAN Poem Explanation First Line: This is the dropped hour Last Line: Eye, half-brown of the child, / drowned | |||
This is the dropped hour- glass-the dark glitter of silted stars, the shiftless sand of a life left true in a shallow box. The small shell whitens like the tight fist of a lost doll. The footfalls pass, a light wind in the wooden sandal. Listen to the shadows sink in the last suck of the black pacifier. Look at the sky locked up in the sea, in a cage of paper wings. Oh, look at all the angels flattened against the rocks. This, the dry butterfly: the half-blue eye, half-brown of the child, drowned. Copyright © Sahar Tchaitchian. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STIRRUP-CUP by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 17 by OMAR KHAYYAM BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER by WALLACE RICE LAODAMIA by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE HINT O' HAIRST by HEW AINSLIE |
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