With the Grain (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Davie
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Love or romance, Painting or painters, Carpentry or carpenters, Work or workers, Gardens or gardening, Wood
The Poem
Donald Davie’s “With the Grain” is a meditative lyric of sixty-three lines divided into three sections, each with three seven-line unrhymed stanzas. The poem ponders the applicability of certain aspects of carpentry and painting to fundamental elements of romantic love and literature. The general, alternating contrast between long and short lines in each stanza as well as the lack of uniform line pattern within or between stanzas (line length varies from five to fourteen syllables) echoes the contrast between regularity, or order, and irregularity, or...
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