Gravelly Run (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: A. R. Ammons
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Rivers or waterways, Trees, Jewish-Arab relations
The Poem
“Gravelly Run” is a thirty-line free-verse lyric divided into six stanzas in which the speaker meditates on a small stream, questioning the connection between the world of human thought and the world of nature. The poem is characterized by a struggle between the highly abstract thought processes of the speaker and the concrete imagery of the stream. The poem opens with the speaker wrestling with a problem. The first line sounds as if the speaker has already been pondering the problem for a while. “I don’t know,” he says, indicating the tentative nature of...
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