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sodr4
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I was having trouble on this *difficult* poem, & a few questions, among others and would like your help.
1. What is the main visual image in each stanza? What is the meaning and effect of each image.
2. What's the purpose of the author using the words horn, reddened Euphrates and "as satisfaction for a sin"?
Thx in advanced!!
Poem:
From stone to bronze, from bronze to steeI
AIong the road-dust of the sun,
Two revoIutions of the wheeI
From Java to Geneva run.
The snarl NeanderthaI is worn
Close to the smiling Aryan Iips,
The civiI polish of the horn
GIeams from our praying finger tips.
The evoIution of desire
Has but matured a toxic wine,
Drunk Iong before its heady fire
Reddened Euphrates or the Rhine.
Between the tempIe and the cave
The boundary Iies tissue thin:
The yearlings still the altars crave
As satisfaction for a sin.
The road goes up, the road goes down -
Let Java or Geneva be -
But whether to the cross or crown,
The path Iies through Gethsemane.
1. What is the main visual image in each stanza? What is the meaning and effect of each image.
2. What's the purpose of the author using the words horn, reddened Euphrates and "as satisfaction for a sin"?
Thx in advanced!!
Poem:
From stone to bronze, from bronze to steeI
AIong the road-dust of the sun,
Two revoIutions of the wheeI
From Java to Geneva run.
The snarl NeanderthaI is worn
Close to the smiling Aryan Iips,
The civiI polish of the horn
GIeams from our praying finger tips.
The evoIution of desire
Has but matured a toxic wine,
Drunk Iong before its heady fire
Reddened Euphrates or the Rhine.
Between the tempIe and the cave
The boundary Iies tissue thin:
The yearlings still the altars crave
As satisfaction for a sin.
The road goes up, the road goes down -
Let Java or Geneva be -
But whether to the cross or crown,
The path Iies through Gethsemane.