Robert Morgan Poems

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Robert Morgan Poems by Mind Map: Robert Morgan Poems

1. "The Gift of Tongues"

1.1. TONE:

1.1.1. serious, confusing, anxious, tense,

1.2. NOISE:

1.2.1. Rush of unhuman Chatter (2), electrocuted (5), voice (6), hiss (9), awful fire (8), high syllables (13), flare of higher language (14-15), sentences of light (15), sang (16)

1.3. RELIGION:

1.3.1. chaotic, confusing

1.4. NATURE: quiet, gift, something to savor, plain (easy to understand)

2. "Bean Money"

3. "Roost Tree"

4. Nature

5. Humanity

6. Death/Decay

7. "Church Dust"

7.1. DUST:

7.1.1. sediment (2), stive (4), dry mist (7), salts and silts (11), bits of hair, flakes of skin (13), pieces, must (22), crumbs (22), lint (24), bullet spent (25), dust (26)

7.2. RELIGION:

7.2.1. Oldest wooden churches (1), altar (3), pews (3), human hope (11), long-forgotten sermons and hymns (18), pulpit (21), stillest house, quietest room (10), service table (23),

7.3. DECAY, DISREPAIR, NEGATIVE:

7.3.1. Sediment between the planks (2), dust flies away before it can be caught (5-7), wrestles (7), shiver dance (8), air is troubled (9), stillest house, quietest room (10), human sweat and human mourning (12), dust ends up in corners and cracks in the church (14), forgotten words, hymns, sermons (17-18), spider (20), mouse (22), hornet (25), bullet (25)

7.4. NATURAL:

7.4.1. dust, troubled air (9), light (8), spider (20), flies (21), weather (16), mouse (22), hornet (25), human sweat (12), hair and skin (13)

8. "Fasting"

9. Religion

10. Life