My interpretation of “In The Desert” by Stephen Crane
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In the Desert
by Stephen Crane
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
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Stephen Crane, ‘A Man Said to the Universe’
TEXT ID: A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
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Stephen Crane, Nina Foch, and Osa Massen in Cry of the Werewolf (1944).
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In the spring of 1897, novelist and poet Stephen Crane was working as a war correspondent for the New York Journal covering a possible war between Greece and Turkey. In between dispatches he posed for this photograph in an Athens studio.
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babygirl the 20th century american poets would have loved u
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"...we make our journey alone, that few will ever know what we sought or understand what we have found."
Excerpt from "For truth was to me a breath, a wind, a shadow..." by Gerald D. McDonald, an introduction to Poems of Stephen Crane, 1964.
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Stephen Crane, ‘Should the Wide World Roll Away’
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Part V: 15 More Favourite Poems
I Bargained with Life for a Penny, by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Rain, by Raymond Carver
Poems from Dear Sal, by Jeremy Radin
Starlings in Winter, and
In Blackwater Woods, by Mary Oliver
Two Insomnias, and
Let the Lover Be, and
Without Cause, by Rumi
Life, by Charlotte Brontë
Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Departure, by Louise Glück
A Man Said to the Universe, by Stephen Crane
Short Song, by Justin Quinn
A Shropshire Lad XL, by A.E. Houseman
Idyll, by Siegfried Sassoon
See also Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
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Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
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