Robert Penn Warren
Robert
Penn Warren (1905 – 1989) fue un poeta y escritor
norteamericano. Ganó dos premios Pulitzer en poesía, en 1958 por Promises: Poems 1954-1956, y en 1979 por
Now and Then. En 1947 recibió el
Pulitzer por su novela All the King´s Men.
A ver si les gusta este poema de Robert Penn Warren, sobre el amor, el
reconocimiento, el todos los días, el silencio y el ruido.
Love Recognized
There are many
things in the world, and you
Are one of them.
Many things keep happening and
You are one of
them, and the happening that
Is you keeps
falling like snow
On the landscape
of not-you, hiding hideousness,
until
The streets and
the world of wrath are choked with
snow.
How many things
have become silent? Traffic
Is throttled. The mayor
Has been,
clearly, remiss, and the city
Was totally
unprepared for such a crisis. Nor
Was I- yes, why
should this happen to me?
I have always
been a law-abiding citizen.
But you, like
snow, like love, keep falling.
And it is not
certain that the world will not be
Covered in a
glitter of crystalline whiteness.
Silence.
Vocabulario
Hideousness:
ugliness.
Wrath: anger,
displeasure.
Throttled: silenced.
Love
Recognized es parte de la colección de Warren Now and Then, que ganó el Pulitzer por poesía en 1979.
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Cummings, un poco de su vida, y i carry
your heart with me y
Because I could not stop for Death de Emily
Dickinson
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