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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEME AND VARIATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, man | |||
I Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, 1nan1 fire and water, earth and air all things alter even as I behold, all things alter, the stranger said. Alter, become a something more, a something less. Are the reveling shadows of a changing permanence. Are, are not and same and other, the stranger said. II I sense, he said, the lurking rush, the sly transience flickering at the edge of things. I've spied from the corner of my eye upon the striptease of reality. There is, there is, he said, an imminence that turns to curiosa all I know·· that changes light to rainbow darknes wherein God waylays us and empowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOST MISTRESS by ROBERT BROWNING THE PINES AND THE SEA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NEW FRIENDS AND OLD FRIENDS by JOSEPH PARRY THE SPINNING-WHEEL [SONG] by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER OUR MASTER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE BIRDS: THE BUILDING OF CLOUDCUCKOOCITY by ARISTOPHANES |
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