![]() But he (yes, ‘Joyce’ is male in this case) also wrote others, including this fine sonnet about alarm clocks. Kilmer (1886-1918) is known for one poem: ‘ Trees’. What can clocks tell us? Quite a lot, according to Carl Sandburg in this experimental free-verse poem about the various kinds of clock he observes, from the alarm clock that gets people up at half-seven in the morning to the travel clock an actress carries around with her to various hotels. The heart that beats in his aged chest is that of a young man still capable of feeling love, romantic longing, and infatuation: The implication, of course, is that the speaker’s romantic leanings are those of a young man, even though the speaker himself is now old. ![]() Thomas Hardy, ‘ I Look into My Glass’.Ī short poem, with a simple message: the speaker looks at himself in his mirror (or ‘glass’) and sees his wrinkled and ageing skin, and wishes that his heart was similarly weakened and reduced. ![]()
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