A poem by this author continues from where Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Inversnaid", praising the title entities for overwhelming his "narrow vegetable realm" and shaping "the creature that is I".
A poem by this author continues from where Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Inversnaid", praising the title entities for overwhelming his "narrow vegetable realm" and shaping "the creature that is I". This author of "Long Live the Weeds" asks "which I is I?" in a poem that states that madness is but "nobility of soul at odds with circumstance". This poet marvels at "the shapes a bright container can contain" in a poem whose four stanzas each end with parentheticals, including "(But what prodigious mowing we did make)" and "(I measure time by how a body sways)". The whiskey-breathed title character of another of his poems "beat time on" the narrator's "head with a palm caked hard by dirt" while performing the title dance. This poet claimed to "feel my fate in what I cannot fear" in a villanelle that ends with the line "I learn by going where I have to go". For 10 points, name this American poet of "I Knew a Woman", "My Papa's Waltz", and "The Waking".
A poem by this author continues from where Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Inversnaid", praising the title entities for overwhelming his "narrow vegetable realm" and shaping "the creature that is I".
Theodore Roethke [or Theodore Huebner Roethke]