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harder is it to be a country poet. How to find a private role, as Frost
did, that generates enough action and feeling? The movement of con–
temporary sensibility is all in the other direction, toward a static con–
templation, with pious gestures toward the gods and myths, of the
already achieved. But there are many good poems in Wright's book,
among which I especially liked "Sappho," "Mutterings over the Crib
of a Deaf Child," and the following:
LAMENT FOR
My
BROTHER ON A HAYRAKE
Cool with the touch of autumn, waters break
Out of the pump at dawn to clear my eyes;
I leave the house, to face the sacrifice
Of hay, the drag and death.
J3,y
day, by moon,
I have seen my younger brother wipe his face
And heave his arm on steel. He need not pass
Under the blade to waste his life and break;
The hunching of the body is enough
To violate his bones. That bright machine
Strips the revolving earth of more than grass;
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