One section of this poem discusses grass that "grew as scant as hair / in leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud / Which un
One section of this poem discusses grass that "grew as scant as hair / in leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud / Which underneath looked kneaded up with blood." The speaker asserts "I never saw a brute I hated so / He must be wicked to deserve such pain" after encountering an emaciated blind horse, and claims "I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart," reflecting on the fate of his deceased friends Cuthbert and Giles. The third to last stanza, begins with the question "Not See?" and describes how the "day / came back again" to illuminate hills "like giants"; while the penultimate stanza begins with the question "Not Hear?" The speaker receives directions from "that hoary cripple, with malicious eye" and, after traveling through a barren valley, reaches the title location and claims "Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set / and blew." This poem was first published in the collection Men and Women, and inspired by Edgar's mad song in King Lear. FTP, name this poem about a knight searching for a mysterious spire, by Robert Browning.
One section of this poem discusses grass that "grew as scant as hair / in leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud /
“ {Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”}