Project Gutenberg 2024-03-11 Public domain in the USA. 80 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 30046 2024-11-30T17:24:11.308929 text/html 5877 2024-03-11T18:07:42 text/html 181024 2024-11-30T17:24:14.522936 application/epub+zip 179884 2024-11-30T17:24:12.727937 application/epub+zip 179885 2024-11-30T17:24:11.842940 application/epub+zip 875709 2024-11-30T17:24:15.738932 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 869018 2024-11-30T17:24:13.873909 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 23849 2024-11-30T17:24:11.206948 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4092 2024-03-11T18:07:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15686 2024-11-30T17:24:15.864900 application/rdf+xml 25008 2024-11-30T17:24:12.244943 image/jpeg 4172 2024-11-30T17:24:12.043922 image/jpeg 1575188 2024-11-30T17:24:11.325938 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