The End Of The Library Poem by Weldon Kees

The End Of The Library

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When the coal
Gave out, we began
Burning the books, one by one;
First the set
Of Bulwer-Lytton
And then the Walter Scott.
They gave a lot of warmth.
Toward the end, in
February, flames
Consumed the Greek
Tragedians and Baudelaire,
Proust, Robert Burton
And the Po-Chu-i. Ice
Thickened on the sills.
More for the sake of the cat,
We said, than for ourselves,
Who huddled, shivering,
Against the stove
All winter long.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kim Dammers 30 October 2011

I wonder if this poem had an influence on the movie 'The Day after Tomorrow'?

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Kim Dammers 30 October 2011

I wonder if this poem had an influence on the movie 'The Day after Tomorrow'?

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