In a poem by this author, the speaker declares "I hate my epidermal dress" and wishes to "sleep immodestly" as "a most incarnadine and carnal ghost." This poet wrote "I measure time by how a body sways" in a poem whose first line describes the title character as "lovely in her bones." This author of "Epidermal Macabre" and "I Knew a Woman" used four-line stanzas and lines of three iambs to mimic the title dance of a poem beginning "the whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy." This poet wrote "I feel my fate in what I cannot fear / I learn by going where I have to go" in a villanelle which begins with th
In a poem by this author, the speaker declares "I hate my epidermal dress" and wishes to "sleep immodestly" as "a most incarnadine and carnal ghost." This poet wrote "I measure time by how a body sways" in a poem whose first line describes the title character as "lovely in her bones." This author of "Epidermal Macabre" and "I Knew a Woman" used four-line stanzas and lines of three iambs to mimic the title dance of a poem beginning "the whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy." This poet wrote "I feel my fate in what I cannot fear / I learn by going where I have to go" in a villanelle which begins with the line "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." For 10 points, name this poet from Michigan who wrote "My Papa's Waltz" and "The Waking."
In a poem by this author, the speaker declares "I hate my epidermal dress" and wishes to "sleep immodestly" as "a most incarnadine and carnal ghost."
Theodore {Roethke}