Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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About A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons was a 20th-century American poet. Archibald Randolph Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it