 | Mogens Stiller Kjärgaard - 1986 - 272 pages
...in association with an unusual interpretation of the secondary subject, for example: "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dump to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever."143 In addition, the interpretation... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...life that we ought to have done. Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) English scholar, essayist The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Welsh poet A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no... | |
 | National Museum of Wales, Mark L. Evans - 1989 - 88 pages
...1943—44 the artist painted an abstract composition incorporating human and vegetable forms titled The force that drives the water through the rocks drives my red blood after the opening line of the second stanza of Dylan Thomas's poem of 1933, 'The force that through... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...PPP; SoSe; TrGrPo; TwCP; WeW The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 22 The force that (1. 1—5) 23 And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm. (1.... | |
 | Robert Pogue Harrison - 2009 - 305 pages
...logical impossibility of speaking about the immediate kinship he feels with creation: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. This preverbal kinship that the poet cannot communicate to the crooked rose finds expression in mythos,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...the death stalking his father. THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams Tums mine to wax. And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.... | |
 | Tristan Jones - 1996 - 290 pages
...land that raised him.") — DAFYDD AP GWILYM, fourteenth-century Welsh poet Boyhood The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...water through the rocks Drives my red blood; that drives the mouthing streams Turns mine to wax. And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins How at the mountain... | |
 | David Fideler - 1997 - 444 pages
...the master of the green, the green of creation, the frequency of green consciousness. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintery fever.1 The time of vegetable consciousness is slow. Cocooned in green consciousness, eons... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...question asked two weeks before his death whether he had discovered any meaning in life. 25 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. 26 Along a parabola life like a rocket flies, Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow. ANDREI... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - 1998 - 520 pages
...green fuse drives the flower," he overlooks the enigma in the poem's opening lines: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my...age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. (Davies and Maud, 13) Stewart Crehan points out that the rapidity with which the first line of the... | |
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age ; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. 
