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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...DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THOUGHTS ON THE COMMANDMENTS by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. INTOXICATION by EMILY DICKINSON THE COW by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE COMMONPLACE by WALT WHITMAN PEREGRINUS by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE |
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