Angel (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Merrill
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Music or musicians, Poetry or poets, God, Painting or painters, Pianos or pianists, Birds, Winter, Angels
The Poem
This short, unrhymed exercise in free verse has the intimacy of a bit of private conversation about it. The poet, seated at his desk at a moment of creative frustration, his poem “thus far clotted, unconnected,” notices a tiny angel hovering above his desk. Whether this is a figment of his imagination or a real spiritual intrusion is never made clear, and there are aspects of the description that possess intimations of the natural and the artistic worlds about them. The “whirring” sound leads directly to an association with the hummingbird, and its robes remind...
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