An Analysis of Bearded Oaks by Robert Penn Warren (2234 words, 10 pages)
Victor StrandbergThe first three poems of Eleven Poems . . . inquire anew whether Time theDestroyer does, as they say, render all things meaningless. In "Bearded Oaks,"for example, two lovers "practice for eternity" by lying totally silent andmotionlesscadavers under the ocean of eternity. Enveloped in "kelp-like"grasses under oaks "subtle and ...
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