Monday, January 20, 2003

Into The Dusk-Charged Air Comments

Rating: 3.7

Far from the Rappahannock, the silent
Danube moves along toward the sea.
The brown and green Nile rolls slowly
Like the Niagara's welling descent.
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John Ashbery
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Richard Dates 12 May 2009

Of all of Ashbery's poems I've read so far, this is the most accessible. It gives us some nice images. It has a kind of snow ball fight with us in the end...infusing snow and ice into rivers all over the Earth and in places I don't think snow ever falls.

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Rosen Mihov 24 July 2008

i disagree with all 3 comments you seem to have a condition, honestly; the guy's just about shakespearean in breadth and everything else! i loved this poem as i have all of his i've come across

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James Niles 12 May 2008

This just shows how some people, if I may use that word, don't like geography, no matter how well presented.

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Gregory Gunn 04 December 2007

That's no snow, Lamont. This site should be renamed 'PoemPunter'. What's next? How about Santa Claus chastised for being much too generous? GG

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