"A ghost is someone: death has left a hole / For the lead-colored soul to beat the fire"
— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Date
1946
Metaphor
"A ghost is someone: death has left a hole / For the lead-colored soul to beat the fire"
Metaphor in Context
A ghost is someone: death has left a hole
For the lead-colored soul to beat the fire:
Cynthia leaves her dirty pyre
And seems to coil herself and roll
Under my canopy,
Love's stale and public playground, where I lie
And fill the run-down empire of my bed.
I see the street, her potter's field, is red
And lively with the ashes of the dead;
(p. 56)
For the lead-colored soul to beat the fire:
Cynthia leaves her dirty pyre
And seems to coil herself and roll
Under my canopy,
Love's stale and public playground, where I lie
And fill the run-down empire of my bed.
I see the street, her potter's field, is red
And lively with the ashes of the dead;
(p. 56)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Reading Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of Kavanaugh (San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, 1983)
Date of Entry
07/22/2024
