

English Literature with its reading lists, its established texts, its inquisitions, was to map our compulsory path in what had seemed before an open country. But this prescribed thing was different, books became materials for examinations. Books had opened in childhood imaginations of other lives in which the idea of our own lives dwelling took on depths and heights, colors and figures, a new ground beyond self or personality in the idea of Man. Not only histories and zoologies, but novels and poems became school work. “I have brought a poem today, not as part of your required reading” did she say? or “not English literature, but a confidence, a gift or share”? It was clear, anyway, that much of what we had to read was a prescribed thing she had to teach and we had to learn.

She had presented it as something more, a personal communication. It may have been a diversion or a reward in our course of instruction.

Just beyond the voice of the poem, the hum and buzz of student voices comes distantly from beyond an open window. To recall the poem, blunted and rounded in the heat, is to recall its first reading, and leads me back to that early summer of my own life. fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes. But now, as she read the poem, something changed, became more, transformed by her sense of the poet’s voice, impersonating H.D. The patience of her voice, where resignation and the hope for a communion in teaching still struggled, the reaching out of her voice to engage our care, had a sad sweet lure for me. A young teacher is reading: Fruit cannot drop through this thick air. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Chapter I It is some afternoon in May, twenty-five years ago-1935 or 1936-in a high-school room. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here.

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