Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jesse Stuart
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: South or Southerners, Nature, Rural or country life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Birds, Corn, Sun
Critical Evaluation:
Jesse Stuart’s MAN WITH A BULL-TONGUE PLOW is a book of regional and personal poetry come freely from the heart of its author, a book by a man informed with great natural wisdom and one on intimate terms with life close to the land.
I am a farmer singing at the plow
And as I take my time to plow along
A steep Kentucky hill, I sing my song—
A one-horse farmer singing at the plow.
Thus he describes himself, introduces himself to the reader in the opening lines of this book of 703 sonnets which,...
[The entire page is 1590 words long]
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