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One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues
[7] [8] The poem is a monologue in free verse describing his household (a boy reading to him, a woman tending to the kitchen, and the Jewish landlord), and mentioning four others (three with European names and one Japanese) who seem to inhabit the same boarding house. The poem then moves to a more abstract meditation on a kind of spiritual malaise.
The poem was initially published in The Irish Times on 8 September 1913, under the title "Romance in Ireland (On reading much of the correspondence against the Art Gallery)". It was later included in the pamphlet Nine Poems and the collection Responsibilities (both 1914) as "Romantic Ireland". The poem has been known by its current title only ...
In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
The poem was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955. [14] Ginsberg had not originally intended the poem for performance. The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six—who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.
To be sure, headline inflation has come down over the past year. In October, the U.S. consumer price index saw an annual increase of 3.2%, down from its peak 9.1% increase in June 2022.
Anne Sexton wrote an adaptation as a poem called "One-eye, Two-eyes, Three-eyes" in her collection Transformations (1971), a book in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy tales. [7] Lee Drapp wrote an adapted version called "The Story of One Eye, Two Eye, and Three Eye" (2016), illustrated by Saraid Claxton. [8]