This poem's pronouns are "as tight and regional as a Grandma Moses painting," according to Derek Walcott, who deemed it less "appropriate" than "a Navajo hymn." Helen Vendler claimed that this poem is about "a transfer of loyalty" in her attack on James Fenton's "modern imperialist" analysis. This poem describes a place "still unstoried, artless, unenhanced / Such as she was, such as she would become." On one occasion, this poem's author planned to recite (*) another poem presaging "the glory of a next Augustan age," but he couldn't read the text because of the glaring sunlight on the snow, so he recited this poem instead. This poem claims that until we "forthwith found salvation in surrender," "Something we were wi
This poem's pronouns are "as tight and regional as a Grandma Moses painting," according to Derek Walcott, who deemed it less "appropriate" than "a Navajo hymn." Helen Vendler claimed that this poem is about "a transfer of loyalty" in her attack on James Fenton's "modern imperialist" analysis. This poem describes a place "still unstoried, artless, unenhanced / Such as she was, such as she would become." On one occasion, this poem's author planned to recite (*) another poem presaging "the glory of a next Augustan age," but he couldn't read the text because of the glaring sunlight on the snow, so he recited this poem instead. This poem claims that until we "forthwith found salvation in surrender," "Something we were withholding made us weak," "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by." For 10 points, name this poem that asserts, "The land was ours before we were the land's," read at JFK's inauguration by Robert Frost.
This poem's pronouns are "as tight and regional as a Grandma Moses painting," according to Derek Walcott, who deemed it less "appropriate" than "a Navajo hymn."
"The Gift Outright"