The Ant Mansion (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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“The Ant Mansion,” one of the longer prose poems included in Bly's volume The Morning Glory (1975), contains a short narrative in which the poet, after waking in his sleeping bag, takes a walk through the forest. He comes upon a “wood chunk” that has started to decay, providing a home to a colony of ants. He takes the object home and, after studying it, begins to speculate on its significance as a metaphor for human existence.
This poem, as well as the entire collection The Morning Glory, was the culmination of a series of poems Bly began in the early...
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