After making a comparison of a poem to a palpable and mute globed fruit, this author stated a poem "should not mean but be."
One poem by this author describes the air "over Sicily" that is "still flashing with the landward gulls." In a different poem, he asserts "For all the history of grief," there is "an empty doorway and a maple leaf." That poem asserts a certain entity should "be motionless in time as the moon climbs." He ended one poem with the line "the shadow of the night comes on," and that poem describes Ecbatan, Kermanshah, Beghadad, Palmyra, Lebanon, Crete, and Spain. That poem is addressed to a figure "face down beneath the sun." After making a comparison of a poem to a palpable and mute globed fruit, this author stated a poem "should not mean but be." For 10 points, name this American author of "You, Andrew Marvell" and "Ars Poetica," who also wrote the play J. B.
One poem by this author describes the air "over Sicily" that is "still flashing with the landward gulls."
Archibald Macleish