I need to find a poem relating to the novel "A Member of the Wedding" any poems about not feeling like you belong to anything or having an unrealistic fantasy that you really do believe will come true and you are upset when it does not work out would work. If you have any suggestions i would greatly appreciate them. thanks!

Here are two which might work:

Robert Frost--
Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.


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William Butler Yeats -
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing

Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honour bred, with one
Who, were it proved he lies,
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbours' eyes?
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

Les



Post Edited (08-20-04 22:08)

How about just one line.......

"Oh Wedding Guest this soul hath been alone on a wide, wide sea..."

from: Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge