The poem
So I said I am Ezra and the wind whipped my throat gaming for the sounds of my voice I listened to the wind go over my head and up into the night Turning to the sea I said I am Ezra but there were no echoes from the waves The words were swallowed up in the voice of the surf or leaping over the swells lost themselves oceanward Over the bleached and broken fields I moved my feet and turning from the wind that ripped sheets of sand from the beach and threw them like seamists across the dunes swayed as if the wind were taking me away and said I am Ezra As a word too much repeated falls out of being so I Ezra went out into the night like a drift of sand and splashed among the windy oats that clutch the dunes of unremembered seas
The genre of this poem is dramatic poetry and it is specifically soliloquy. In soliloquy we have one person speaks aloud and does so with no one else present to hear the words. The poet in this poem criticizes the society that it doesn't give the right to speak, discuss or share ideas. As we noticed in the first stanza, the poet got depressed because people don't listen to him. Then he moved to the sea, but the sea also doesn't want to listen to him.
Why is this listen as written by Anne Sexton? It was written by A. R. Ammons and published in 1955.
Why is this listed as written by Anne Sexton? It was written by A. R. Ammons and published in 1955.