On Inhabiting an Orange (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Josephine Miles
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Hope, Earth, Geography, Gravitation, Geodesy
The Poem
“On Inhabiting an Orange” is a short, low-key poem about the discrepancy between hopes and actuality. It briefly, dryly, and precisely notes that travelers never arrive anywhere near their exalted destinations but rather follow the route defined by the shape of the globe on which they walk. Like other poems in Josephine Miles’s first major collection, Lines at Intersection, “On Inhabiting an Orange” makes use of geometrical imagery. In this poem, Miles makes an extended metaphor of a geometrical puzzle. Miles’s early work is preoccupied with shapes...
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