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Briefly it Enters, and Briefly Speaks I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years... I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper... When the young girl who starves sits down to a table she will sit beside me... I am food on the prisoner's plate... I am water rushing to the wellhead, filling the pitcher until its spills... I am the patient gardener of the dry and weedy garden... I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge... I am the heart contracted by joy... the longest hair, white before the rest... I am there in the basket of fruit presented to the widow... I am the musk rose opening unattended, the fern on the boggy summit... I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name...
Like Kenyon's poem, this song by Tenth Avenue North tells us that God's love is always surrounding us. Even if we are not aware of it, God's love for us can be seen in the simple things if we simply take the time to look for it.
Briefly it Enters, and Briefly Speaks
by: Jane Kenyon
-sensory imagery: ''longest hair, white...'', ''...dry and weedy garden...'', ''...water rushing to the weelhead, filling the pitcher until it spills...'' -metaphors: each stanza beinging with I am -personification: ''I am the heart contracted by joy...'' -repetition/refrain: ''I am'' -stanza: 11 stanzas
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Jane Kenyon, born May 23, 1947 in Ann Arbor Michigan, was an American poet and translator. During her lifetime, four collections of her poems were published . After her death in 1995, three more of her collections were published. Her poems are known for their stoic portraits of domestic and rural life and provide a great use of imagery. Many of Kenyon's poems deal with inner psyche, because of her struggle with depression throughout much of her adult life. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. In 1995, Jane Kenyon died from lukemia. In 1997, with support from the Jane Kenyon Memorial Fund, the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award was created to honor Kenyon and her dedication to poetry.
