This poet asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" in a poem ending,"The mind enters itself, and God the mind, and one is One, free in the tearing wind.
This poet asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" in a poem ending,"The mind enters itself, and God the mind, and one is One, free in the tearing wind." The speakerparenthetically observes, "I measure time by how a body sways" in his poem describing a person "lovelyin her bones." This poet of "In a Dark Time" and "I Knew a Woman" wrote an elegy beginning, "Thewhiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy," as well as a villanelle concluding, "I learn by goingwhere I have to go." For 10 points, name this German-American poet of "My Papa's Waltz" and "TheWaking."
This poet asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" in a poem ending,"The mind enters itself, and God the mind, and one is One, free in the tearing wind.
Theodore Roethke