· Seven blue swallows divide the air. In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s. Or memory’s power to keep them there. “History is where tensions were,”. “Form is the diagram of forces.”. Thus, helplessly, there on the bridge, While gazing down upon those birds—. How strange, to be above the birds!—. · THE BLUE SWALLOWS. Across the millstream below the bridge Seven blue swallows divide the air In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s Or memory’s power to keep them there. “History is where tensions were,” “Form is the diagram of forces.” Thus, helplessly, there on the bridge,Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Howard Nemerov was a highly acclaimed poet often cited for the range of his capabilities and subject matter, “from the profound to the poignant to the comic,” James Billington remarked in his announcement of Nemerov’s appointment to the post of United States poet laureate. Nemerov was born in New York, New York to an artistically inclined family: his younger sister was photographer Diane Arbus.
The Blue Swallows, published exactly 20 years after his first book, is Nemerov's seventh book of poetry, and the 67 new poems it contains represent not so much a culmination of his efforts as. Rhyme scheme: abcXXX ccdacX bebfcf dbeXeb Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6, Closest metre: iambic pentameter Сlosest rhyme: couplets Сlosest stanza type: tercets Guessed form: heroic couplets Metre: to Howard Nemerov, the editor Bowie Duncan observes in the introduction that there has been a contradictory critical response to this poet. Detractors claim the poetry is "academic" and "over-intellectualized," while his admirers think of it as "self-reflexive and multifaceted."^ In a generally favorable review of The Blue Swallows.
Howard Nemerov. The Blue Swallows. Across the millstream below the bridge. Seven blue swallows divide the air. In shapes invisible and evanescent. The Blue Swallows consists of four sections of poems. The first, "Legends," takes various looks at the sterile, disconnected world created by modernity--a Suburbia of the So Some of my impressions of these poems: intellectual, detached, compelling, annoying, dated, but frequently wrapping up with a powerful finish. Seven blue swallows divide the air. In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s. Or memory’s power to keep them there. “History is where tensions were,”. “Form is the diagram of forces.”. Thus, helplessly, there on the bridge, While gazing down upon those birds—. How strange, to be above the birds!—.
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