Contemporary author Mark Strand's essay "On Becoming a Poet" claims that this work is the first poem he wished he had actually written, and comments that its use of only three punctuation marks, two of which are colons, accentuates the thrice-used infinitive "to feel." The speaker of this poem sees "few travelers in the westward pass" and notes that the air over Sicily fla
Contemporary author Mark Strand's essay "On Becoming a Poet" claims that this work is the first poem he wished he had actually written, and comments that its use of only three punctuation marks, two of which are colons, accentuates the thrice-used infinitive "to feel." The speaker of this poem sees "few travelers in the westward pass" and notes that the air over Sicily flashes with "landward gulls." An ellipsis ends this poem, which mentions places like Palmyra, Baghdad, Kermanshah, and Ecbatan in an order going from east to west. The speaker of this poem feels "creep up the curving east," and also senses the "always coming on / The always rising of the night." FTP, name this work whose speaker is "here face down beneath the sunÂ…upon earth's noonward height," a poem which was titled for the author of "To His Coy Mistress" and was written by Archibald MacLeish.
Contemporary author Mark Strand's essay "On Becoming a Poet" claims that this work is the first poem he wished he had actually written, and comments that its use of only three punctuation marks, two of which are colons, accentuates the thrice-used infinitive "to feel.
"You, Andrew Marvell"