At a glance:
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Poem: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Children, Nature, Christianity, Birds, Life, philosophy of, Resurrection, Easter, Spring
The Poem
The title of “Easter Morning” refers not only to the Easter-morning walk taken near the end of the poem but also to the spiritual and seasonal renewal that the phrase suggests. The “letter-perfect” Easter morning of the poem comes when the poem shifts from what seems to be a dead end of insurmountable incompletions to a scene in nature that suggests a renewal and rebirth.
The speaker of the poem is clearly the poet himself; A. R. Ammons usually writes in his own voice, and his repeated subject is nature and its processes. “Easter Morning”...
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