 | Conrad Aiken - 1927 - 394 pagine
...cloudy palm Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured As April's green endures; or will endure 190 Like her remembrance of awakened birds, Or her desire...a ring of men Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn 191 Their boisterous devotion to the sun— Not as a god, but as a god might be, Naked among them,... | |
 | Richard Gray - 1976 - 292 pagine
...beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. 15 vn Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...might be, Naked among them, like a savage source. 5 Their chant shall be a chant of paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky; And in their... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 pagine
...skeptic with Hoon's Idiot Questioner. Whitman, like Hoon, both contains everything else and is an idea of the sun, not as a god but as a god might be. Hoon is himself the compass of the sea whose tides sweep through him; Walt encompasses worlds but himself... | |
 | John Bayley - 1984 - 228 pagine
...Morning', a poem I still consider much over-praised, for the first time, and feeling that lines like Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...devotion to the sun Not as a god, but as a god might be had strayed in from a different sort of poetry, for a reason the poet might be unable to give. Such... | |
 | James Longenbach - 1991 - 358 pagine
...he cannot trust his feelings because he was not "vitally involved" in that terror as soldiers were. Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky. Imagined in the world of 1915, this is not so much hedonism as desperation, an expression not only... | |
 | Bobby Joe Leggett, Bobby L. Leggett - 1992 - 300 pagine
...curiously archaic effect, which is not difficult to locate. The stanza presents us with a ring of men who "chant in orgy on a summer morn / Their boisterous devotion to the sun." Several commentators have assumed that these men are naked, as Frank Lentricchia does when he refers... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pagine
...existence" that he had with his father and uncles into a "ring of men" who, "supple and turbulent," "shall chant in orgy on a summer morn / Their boisterous devotion to the sun" (69-70), is one answer, but for Spenser not a very good or lasting one. The companionship of men (Hawk,... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pagine
...projects it toward some future occasion of worship—with a difference. The worshipers are to chant their devotion to the sun, "Not as a god, but as a god might be." The difference seems to be that the worshiped force is an object not of belief but of pure imagination.... | |
 | Hays Alan Steilberg - 1996 - 464 pagine
...cit., S. 664 u. 758). '"' Ibid., S. 664. '*' Vgl. Milton Bates, Wallace Stevens, op. cit., S. 250. Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky (CPS 69Í./91-97) große Ähnlichkeit mit Zarathustras Bild der „heissere[n] Süden" aufweist: -... | |
 | Charles Doyle - 1997 - 528 pagine
...is in the seventh stanza (page 93) a reference to the sun, to which men shall chant their devotion Not as a god, but as a god might be, Naked among them,...paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky; . . . Depending upon the reader this will or will not be obscure. But in any case, the full weight... | |
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Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn Their boisterous devotion to the sun, Not as a god, but as a god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source. 
