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Vocabulary from Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

June 11, 2012
By Vocabulary.comVisual Thesaurus Moderator
For Father's Day, learn vocabulary from this portrait of a father's feeling for his daughter. Full text of the poem is available here.
prow
In her room at the prow of the house
pause
I pause in the stairwell, hearing
commotion
From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys
haul
Like a chain hauled over a gunwale.
cargo
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
passage
I wish her a lucky passage.
reject
As if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
figure
As if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
stroke
Of strokes, and again is silent.
daze
I remember the dazed starling
sleek
We watched the sleek, wild, dark
iridescent
And iridescent creature
wit
For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits
suddenly
Rose when, suddenly sure,
smooth
Beating a smooth course for the right window
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Thursday June 28th 2012, 8:54 AM
Comment by: NAYANA C.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Sunday July 1st 2012, 4:27 PM
Comment by: mjanja B. (kigoma Tanzania, United Republic Of)
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday July 6th 2012, 12:26 PM
Comment by: Dav Hla (Washington, D.C., DC)
I like it, but why does it have prow and pause?. Nice.
Saturday July 7th 2012, 11:30 AM
Comment by: c.neisha S.
I don't get what the wilbur's "The Writter" is.... can some one explain it please!!

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