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Poet: Stephen Crane (Stephen Crane Art)
Poem: 10.
Should the wide world roll away,
Volume: The Black Riders & Other Lines
Year: Published/Written in 1905
Poem of the Day:
Nov 28 2003
Comment 3 of 3, added on February 4th, 2007 at 3:24 AM.
It means that if he could fall with her in his arms, it wouldn't matter. Especially if it was a long ways. It's romantic in the truest sense. I don't see how it's in the least bit twisted. It's saying that if the world ends, just let me be in your arms as it's happening.
ea
Comment 2 of 3, added on February 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 PM.
This is not stating that if there was no God, Crane would need ______; it is stating.. Crane does not care about God or those other things, he just cares that he is with a certain person for a while. A very twisted romantic poem.
Mike
Comment 1 of 3, added on August 15th, 2005 at 8:51 AM.
Wow. In a world robbed of God, he reveals what will truly be important to him. The world stumbling to doom does not seem to matter much -- since it may very well be the present stage of the world. A world without religion would indeed seem like a a limitless night to some people, but it is these white hands that truly matter to him. Then -- somehow -- the black terror doesn't seem so bad. I'm reminded of a Katherine Hepburn quotation, "I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other."
Lucie Guo from United States
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It means that if he could fall with her in his arms, it wouldn't matter. Especially if it was a long ways. It's romantic in the truest sense. I don't see how it's in the least bit twisted. It's saying that if the world ends, just let me be in your arms as it's happening.
ea