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The End of the Poem: "The Mountain" by Robert Frost.

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20010101
Author:MULDOON, PAUL

As I was trying to make some sense of the complex relation ship between Marianne Moore and Ted Hughes in my discussion of Hughes's "The Literary Life," I happened upon "The Buffalo," a poem in which Moore describes the animal as being:

no-white-nosed Vermont ox yoked with its twin to haul the maple-sap,

up to their knees in snow;

We recognise this "Vermont ox" as having been led by its white nose from lines 16-18 of "The Mountain":

And there I met a man who moved so slow

With white-faced oxen, in a heavy cart,

It seemed no harm to stop him altogether.

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