Accident (F. S. Flint) by Frank Stuart Flint
A traveller in a railway carriage addresses a proud, unknown woman seated in a corner. Amid dirt, squalor, weary bodies, and the dead faces of fellow passengers, he sees her calm cold face and waving black hair, and feels love and desire for her. The thudding wheels contain a tense, tender quiet within him as he reaches his station.
By Frank Stuart Flint · First published 1920 · Genre: Poetry, Modernism, Expressionism · 190 words
First lines
Dear one! / you sit there / in the corner of the carriage; / and you do not know me; / and your eyes forbid.
Is it the dirt, the squalor, / the wear of human bodies, / and the dead faces of our neighbours? / These are but symbols.
You are proud; I praise you; / your mouth is set; you see beyond us; / and you see nothing.
I have the vision of your calm, cold face, / and of the black hair that waves above it; / I watch you; I love you; / I desire you.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Frank Stuart Flint
- Date: 1920 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Modernism, Expressionism
- Length: 190 words
- Structure: 1 section, 7 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Very Easy (5th Grade or below)
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Genres
- Poetry — The book 'ACCIDENT (F. S. FLINT)' by D.H. Lawrence is a collection of his poems, which best fits into the Poetry genre.
- Modernism — D.H. Lawrence is a well-known figure in the modernist literary movement, and this collection of his poems reflects key modernist ideas and themes, situating the book within the Modernism genre.
- Expressionism — Lawrence's work, including 'ACCIDENT (F. S. FLINT)', often delves into human emotions and subjective experiences, characteristics of the Expressionism genre.
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tragedy · human experience · relationships · loss · fate · existentialism · emotional turmoil · conflict · identity · society · introspection · despair