by hefnerbe | Mar 30, 2011 | VI. Quaker Hill
Quaker Hill: is an upstate New York resort town, near Patterson, three miles east of Pawling Village. Crane had lived there sometime, due to the hassle of the city. Quaker Hill became a resort on the 13th of July 1881. Line 3: “Antarctic skies”- Reference to the...
by hefnerbe | Mar 30, 2011 | VI. Quaker Hill
Line 26: “Borders of three states”- “the narrator looks out over the three American states (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut) visible from the top of the derelict Mizzentop Hotel; but these three states also come to connote the three dimensional material...
by hefnerbe | Mar 30, 2011 | VI. Quaker Hill
Line 51: “Iroquois to guide”- “Iroquois” According to OED; is of or pertaining to an American Indian group of peoples (the ‘Five Nations’) encountered esp. in Ontario and central and northern New York state (OED). Line 52: “Scalped Yankees”- ...
by hefnerbe | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, VI. Quaker Hill
Go to Quaker Hill “Is an attempt to focus the cosmic journey once more upon the person of the poet.” – Waldo Frank
