With Trumpets and Zithers (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Perception, Creation myth, Nature, Music or musicians, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Women, City life, Airplanes or jets, Universe, Rain, Poetics, Night, Gifts
The Poem
“With Trumpets and Zithers” is an extended meditation on physical being and on the relationship of the particular to the abstract. It is divided into eleven sections, each of which consists of an irregular number of long lines of free verse.
The title invokes musical instruments of a biblical origin. Trumpets and zithers are found both in books of prophecy, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, where they signal outbursts of energetic vision or ecstasy, and in books of hymnal praise, such as the Song of Solomon or Psalms, where they serve as sweet musical...
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