625: You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop

[exceptindreams]

"You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop

Comments

[gethenian]

"In a Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

[polkadot_banana]

Wow these poems are amazing! thank you so much :)

[maiji]

The first thing I thought of was Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[big_bad_al]

Woo, Ozymandias! That's such a good poem.

[chaosbydesign]

This is probably my favorite poem of all time. Or at least in the top 3.

[jeweledhibiscus]

I really like this poem, but I feel like it brings up some things that it doesn't adequately explore. What's here is great though.

re question: This is the first poem that sprang to mind, but I'm not sure it's entirely apt-- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/world.htm

[lady_moriel]

The first thing that comes to my mind is Eliot's "The Hollow Men," although that maybe has more to do with destruction than creation--not sure.

[subsequent]

The Machine of the Twentieth Century Rolls Through the High-Yielding Crop - John KisellaDust particles cling to sweat despite the sun just up