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You Will Know When You Get There is from Curnow’s 1982 collection of the same name, full of poems describing memories of his youth and family. One critic wrote in an obituary (Curnow died in 2001 at age 90) that this book was best known for dealing with “a creeping sense of the nearness of death.”
The New Zealand poet Allen Curnow published “You Will Know When You Get There” in 1982, including it in his collection of the same name. In the poem, a person walks down a steep slope into the ocean as daylight fades.
‘You Will Know When You Get There’ by Allen Curnow illustrates a desire to make peace with death as opposed to viewing it as an adversary that must be feared or evaded. The poem begins with the speaker describing how no one, no matter who they are, goes to the sea before or after their time.
3 de abr. de 2011 · From the 1971 album "Mwandishi"
Mood. Analysis. You will Know When You Get There. Nobody comes up from the sea as late as this in the day and the season, and nobody else goes down. The last steep kilometre, wet metalled where A shower passed shredding the light which keeps. pouring out of its tank in the sky, through summits, trees, vapours thickening and thinning.
25 de ene. de 2017 · 43. 2.9K views 6 years ago. Provided to YouTube by Columbia/Legacy You'll Know When You Get There (Live) · Herbie Hancock ...more. Provided to YouTube by Columbia/LegacyYou'll...
Album: Mwandishi (1971)
