http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/27/peter-davison/ Knopf Doubleday Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/27/peter-davison/comment-page-1/#comment-45379 Madeline Gouin Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:09:44 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=16430#comment-45379 Peter Davison’s “The Level Path," seems to invite the reader outside the door of an earthly prison. The poem evokes the visual narrative of a destination including a "narrow path" which eventually leads to a top view of the mess left behind what I call, the "cellar door." Using the earth as a metaphor of directives it seems an almost complicated highway of obstacles more so, than beauty. I am not sure if this is what Peter Davison meant when he wrote "The Level Path" never-the-less, this is how I have come to understand it. Peter Davison’s “The Level Path,” seems to invite the reader outside the door of an earthly prison. The poem evokes the visual narrative of a destination including a “narrow path” which eventually leads to a top view of the mess left behind what I call, the “cellar door.” Using the earth as a metaphor of directives it seems an almost complicated highway of obstacles more so, than beauty. I am not sure if this is what Peter Davison meant when he wrote “The Level Path” never-the-less, this is how I have come to understand it.

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