Read full poem →In the beginning was the Word; Frost took this word and recreated a most wonderful world of bending birches. Frost saw the gap between sense and nonsense, but he proposed to leap over the void or fill it in. He ended by persuading himself the gap wasn't even there. The language problem dissolved in his deft hands as the lines of communication were secured between reader and writer. Frost met the Jabberwock in immortal combat and I, standing mutely by, discovered that language is the sword with which to rise. That night Frost became my Don Quixote, exalting the Holy Order of the Galumph. I bowed before his holly shield and accepted his gospel. He became the Mock Turtle; together we meandered through the wonderland of language, exploring Sound and examining Sense. Although I am forming a Robert Frost cliche with the jargon of English II, Frost wore these tenuous garments with the imperceptible grace of the benighted knight who slew the Jabberwock.
Dictionary Entry
To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
In a Sentence
“The stream meandered through the valley.”
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along meandereddown meanderedover meanderedacross meanderedaround meanderedback meanderedmeandered river
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Poetry examples for “meandered”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.