"Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, / Henry perplexed himself."
— Berryman, John [b. John Allyn Smith, Jr.] (1914-1972)
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss, Giroux
Date
1964
Metaphor
"Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, / Henry perplexed himself."
Metaphor in Context
Industrious, affable, having brain on fire,
Henry perplexed himself; others gave up;
good girls gave in;
geography was hard on friendship, Sire;
marriages lashed & languished, anguished; dearth of group
and what else had been;
(58, p. 65, ll. 1-6)
Henry perplexed himself; others gave up;
good girls gave in;
geography was hard on friendship, Sire;
marriages lashed & languished, anguished; dearth of group
and what else had been;
(58, p. 65, ll. 1-6)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Berryman, John. The Dream Songs. New York: The Noonday Press, 1969.
Date of Entry
09/26/2010
