Elinor Wylie was an American poet and novelist. She was famous during her lifetime for her stunning beauty and personality, in addition to her literary successes. Her poetry is described emotional, completed with the highest regard for craftsmanship, and incredibly thoughtful. Her first book was Nets to Catch the Wind.
Elinor Wylie’s ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’ contrasts nature’s liberty with human limits, showing a woman’s resilience.
Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:
I am by nature none of these.
‘Cold-Blooded Creatures’ by Elinor Wylie describes a speaker’s view of mankind and its inability show interest in the lives of non-human animals.
Man, the egregious egoist,
(In mystery the twig is bent,)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient
‘Escape’ by Elinor Wylie describes how the narrator will leave the lackluster world behind her and escape to a house of her own she has yet to build.
When foxes eat the last gold grape,
And the last white antelope is killed,
I shall stop fighting and escape
Into a little house I'll build.
‘Fire and Sleet and Candlelight’ By Elinor Wylie is short poem through which an impassioned narrator speaks about a wasted life.
For this you’ve striven
Daring, to fail:
Your sky is riven
Like a tearing veil.
‘The Eagle and the Mole’ contrasts the solitary eagle and mole as escape from society’s herd, advocating independence over conformity.
Avoid the reeking herd,
Shun the polluted flock,
Live like that stoic bird,
The eagle of the rock.
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