Poem-A-Day: Vision by Robert Penn Warren

November 17, 2013 Vision by Robert Penn Warren     I shall build me a house where the larkspur blooms  In a narrow glade in an alder wood,  Where the sunset shadows make violet glooms,  And a whip-poor-will calls in eerie mood.    I shall lie on a bed of river sedge,  And listen to the glassy dark,  With a guttered light on my window ledge,  While an owl stares in at me white and stark.    I shall burn my house with the rising dawn,  And leave but the ashes and smoke behind,  And again give the glade to the owl and the fawn,  When the grey wood smoke drifts away with the wind.         Today's poem is in the public domain.  About This Poem Robert Penn Warren entered Vanderbilt University in 1921, where he became the youngest member of the group of Southern poets called the Fugitives. Warren's first poems were published in The Fugitive, a magazine which the group published from 1922 to 1925. The Fugitives were advocates of the rural Southern agrarian tradition and based their poetry and critical perspective on classical aesthetic ideals. Poetry by Warren The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)                Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Robert Penn Warren was born in Kentucky in 1905. Though regarded as one of the best poets of his generation, Warren was better known as a novelist and received tremendous recognition for All the King's Men, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947. His Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1979, he earned a third Pulitzer Prize for Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978. Warren served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1972 until 1988. In 1986, Warren was named the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. He died on September 15, 1989.   Related Poems Butterfly Catcher by Tina Cane February: The Boy Breughel by Norman Dubie In a Blue Wood by Richard Levine __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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