Project Gutenberg 2024-03-11 Public domain in the USA. 131 Hank, Dick The legacy $aNew York, NY :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1961. Reading ease score: 84.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Legacy" by Dick Hank is a contemplative narrative poem written in the early 1960s. This work explores the aftermath of a catastrophic event, presumably nuclear war, reflecting on humanity's legacy in a devastated world. Through its experimental blank verse style, the book touches on themes of loss, remembrance, and the search for meaning amid destruction. In this poignant vignette, the last man on Earth traverses a barren landscape littered with remnants of civilization. As he walks through the wreckage of what was once a thriving world, he grapples with the implications of human existence and its legacy. The story paints a somber picture of a world where beauty and purpose have been lost, and the protagonist is determined to preserve the memory of humanity. He collects artifacts of everyday life and places them in a vault, inscribing on the wall an acknowledgment of what has been lost and a fundamental question about humanity's forgotten faith. The final lines poignantly highlight a failed promise, asking how humanity could truly save itself, thus ending the poem on a note of existential inquiry. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240225140459hank 1961 US en Science fiction Short stories Apocalyptic fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 30175 2025-04-29T05:17:10.569574 text/html 5877 2024-03-11T18:07:42 text/html 181108 2025-04-29T05:17:13.810578 application/epub+zip 179886 2025-04-29T05:17:12.007584 application/epub+zip 179885 2025-04-29T05:17:11.104662 application/epub+zip 875237 2025-04-29T05:17:15.143602 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 869004 2025-04-29T05:17:13.240578 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 23855 2025-04-29T05:17:10.456576 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4092 2024-03-11T18:07:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15686 2025-04-29T05:17:15.285561 application/rdf+xml 25008 2025-04-29T05:17:11.513572 image/jpeg 4172 2025-04-29T05:17:11.303608 image/jpeg 1575227 2025-04-29T05:17:10.587604 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog