Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Summary
Robert Bly

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Summary

"Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter" appears in Robert Bly's 1962 collection of poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields. Like many of Bly's poems, it is short—only five lines. It appears midway through the second section of the collection titled "Awakening." The first section is "Eleven Poems of Solitude," and the last section is "Silence on the Roads." Bly, who was born and has lived most of his life in rural...

(read more from the Study Guide)