TAPERING to a point, conserving everything, this carrot is predestined to be thick. The world is but a circumstance, a mis- erable corn-patch for its feet. With ambition, imagination, outgrowth, nutriment, with everything crammed belligerent- ly inside itself, its fibres breed mon- opoly— a tail-like, wedge-shaped engine with the secret of expansion, fused with intensive heat to color of the set- ting sun and stiff. For the man in the straw hat, stand- ing still and turning to look back at it, as much as to say my happiest moment has been funereal in comparison with this, the conditions of life pre- determined slavery to be easy and freedom hard. For it? Dismiss agrarian lore; it tells him this: that which it is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN THE LOVER IN HELL by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET WE CAN'T WRITE OURSELVES INTO ETERNAL LIFE by DAVID IGNATOW ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE' by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A NEW HYMN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD OCTAVES: 15 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON IN THE TRENCHES by ISAAC ROSENBERG |