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Darker Ends (Paperback)
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Darker Ends (Paperback)
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Loot Price R166
Discovery Miles 1 660
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Forty-two poems by a writer whose subjects, rhymed lines, patterned
structures, and melodic diction place him within the great
tradition of English lyric poetry. Robert Nye writes about love and
its painful absence, intimately addressing himself to wife, child,
friend. Like other lyric poets, he turns to nature for his imagery,
using wintery landscapes to illustrate a spirit grown "dissatisfied
and cold" in this "of all probably worlds worst." No clangor of
cities enters his scenes, but the snow- clad rural setting of
"Gathering Sticks" and "A Bat In A Box" has not been exempted from
the modern malaise of depersonalized lovelessness. The prevailing
mood of the poems is elegaic or bitter - too expectably so,
perhaps, but they are often lovely and at times elegant. Especially
nice are "A Winter's Surprise," a wry song to love transformed;
"Anniversary," celebrating "five years marred or married"; and "An
Answer For the Owl," short and polished. The longest poem,
"Crowson," is excellently realized both as an elegy to an unloved
old man and as an agonized moment of truth for the poet. (Kirkus
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