In Those Years – The Poetry Monster

A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

In those years, people will say, we lost track

of the meaning of we, of you

we found ourselves

reduced to I

and the whole thing became

silly, ironic, terrible:

we were trying to live a personal life

and yes, that was the only life

we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged

into our personal weather

They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove

along the shore, through the rags of fog

where we stood, saying I

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Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On Mr. Gay poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On His Grotto at Twickenham poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On Colley Cibber poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On Certain Ladies poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On a Fan of the Author’s Design poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
On a Certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Ode on Solitude poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Lines Written in Windsor Forest poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
Inscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English

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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.

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