The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
The force driving green through the fuse of the flower drives the speaker's green age, and the same force that blasts the roots of trees is his destroyer; the hand whirling water in the pool stirs the quicksand and ropes the blowing wind. Each stanza states an identity between the body and the world, then breaks off to admit he is dumb to tell — to the crooked rose, to the hanging man, to the lover's tomb. Written at nineteen out of a Swansea notebook, and the poem that made his name when the Sunday Referee printed it.
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