O Carib Isle! (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Caribbean, God, Islands, Death or dying, Beaches or seashores
The Poem
“O Carib Isle!” is a lyric poem of thirty-four lines divided into seven irregular stanzas with intermittent rhyme. The stanzas are further grouped into two sections followed by a concluding four-line stanza. The poem presents a beach scene in which a Caribbean island teeming with nonhuman life is associated with death in the mind of the speaker, the poet Hart Crane himself rather than an imaginary persona. In the first stanza, the poem describes the foot end of a grave in white sand where lilies have been laid and a tarantula rustles among the dry flower stalks....
[The entire page is 1498 words long]
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