Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poem is written in some three hundred lines of blank verse and treats of a woman whose soul is one with the soil by which she lives and whose life is a symbol of the universal, earth-impelled life forces. Systole and diastole, spring and autumn are in her the same...
Anne pressed her body to the raw, rich earth...
...appreciatively, for while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...
...touching the ground, the plane ran along, neatly balanced on its one wheel, for a few seconds. Then the wheelless axle struck the sun-baked earth; the plane dragged 30 yards, suddenly flopped over on its back...
...President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...