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Still he stands

Watching the vortex widen and involve

in swirling dissolution the whole earth

and circle through the skies till swaying time

collapses, crumpling into dark the skies

-from the poem “Einstein”
INTRODUCTION
Archibald MacLeish was always a loner. Although he married he was always wondering about man’s relationship to the world. He wondered why people could not see that they were wasting the little time we have on this earth. He tried to show in his poems “the reality of the emotions that words cannot describe.”(Falk 27) Often he would include in his poems laws of nature and physics which gave him a unique style.
(Falk 24)
BIOGRAPHY
Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois to an average middle class family. His father, Andrew MacLeish, was a businessman. His mother, Martha Hillard......

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