The End Of The World Comments

(cont.) Born: May 7,1892, Glencoe, IL Died: April 20,1982 (age 89 years) , Boston, MA Awards: National Book Award for Poetry, Bollingen Prize · See more Education: The Hotchkiss School (1911) , Harvard University, Yale University, Harvard Law School Nationality: American'

I confess I failed to finish reading this, but....what the ? ? ? (cont.)

A deceptively simple sonnet about the absurdity and futility of life lived with no hope of anything to come after it except the complete oblivion of death.

Line 8 should should say the top instead of to top. Thanks!

In line 8, to top blew off should be the top blew off

Regardless of the typo, I love this - especially the second stanza. Cancelled skies - brilliant.

Two years later, the same poem has the same typo: 'Quite unexpectedly to top blew off: ' should be: 'Quite unexpectedly the top blew off: '

The last line of the first verse should read '...the top blew off.'