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Ozy and Millie: Roethke’s “The Waking”
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Ozy and Millie: Roethke’s “The Waking”

by dana on August 27, 1999 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Comics
└ Tags: milie, mom, ozy, poetry, rain, sorkowitz
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  1. Mazanec the Mongoose
    August 23, 2015, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
    I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
    I learn by going where I have to go.

    We think by feeling. What is there to know?
    I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

    Of those so close beside me, which are you?
    God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
    And learn by going where I have to go.

    Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
    The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

    Great Nature has another thing to do
    To you and me; so take the lively air,
    And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

    This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
    What falls away is always. And is near.
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
    I learn by going where I have to go.

  2. Adam Lang
    October 17, 2020, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

    I dunno. I don’t think I have the same idea as Millie does what this poem means.

    Or, at least, I have a different attitude than she does to it.

    How else shall we learn where we have to go, but by going?

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