"The courtyards of the inner heart go round / And round, so sure are they / Where they will end; the brick / Convolutions enter and extend / The individual life, and come to end."
— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Author
Work Title
Date
1955
Metaphor
"The courtyards of the inner heart go round / And round, so sure are they / Where they will end; the brick / Convolutions enter and extend / The individual life, and come to end."
Metaphor in Context
The courtyards of the inner heart go round
And round, so sure are they
Where they will end; the brick
Convolutions enter and extend
The individual life, and come to end.
Beyond, the plains of the universe compass hope
So thin so fast
A television cannot trace what spins
Political or polar in the shape
Of one quick trip.
Between, in middle distance where the seasons
In plenitude emerge,
Figures move together on the open
Course, out of the beleaguered heart,
Out of the universal siege. (p. 18)
And round, so sure are they
Where they will end; the brick
Convolutions enter and extend
The individual life, and come to end.
Beyond, the plains of the universe compass hope
So thin so fast
A television cannot trace what spins
Political or polar in the shape
Of one quick trip.
Between, in middle distance where the seasons
In plenitude emerge,
Figures move together on the open
Course, out of the beleaguered heart,
Out of the universal siege. (p. 18)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Josephine Miles, Prefabrications (Indiana University Press, 1955).
Date of Entry
06/13/2024
