Tags: Poem.
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow is a poem written by Robert Duncan in 1960. The poem was published in his book The Opening of the Field.The speaker describes a meadow to which he is often permitted to return. This meadow seems to represent a place that is metaphysically spiritually and emotionally valuable for him. The notion of permission is ambiguous: it is not made clear who does the permitting or why permission is needed.