He stands and watches the vortex widen and involve in the whirling dissolution the whole earth and spin through the heavens until the rolling time collapses, crumpling the heavens in darkness - from the poem "Einstein" ; INTRODUCTION Archibald MacLeish has always been a loner. Although he was married, he always wondered about man's relationship with the world. He wondered why people couldn't understand that they were wasting the little time we have on this earth. He tried to show in his poems "the reality of emotions that words cannot describe.";(Falk 27) He often included laws of nature and physics in his poems which gave him a unique style.(Falk 24)BIOGRAPHYArchibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois, to an average middle-class family. His father, Andrew MacLeish, was a businessman. His mother, Martha Hillard MacLeish, was a homemaker. His parents quickly realized that they had a very gifted son, so they sent him to the Hotchkiss School. This school catered to his many different interests. Of all the things MacLeish excelled at, he was best at writing. Archibald graduated at the top of his class and was accepted to Yale University. While at Yale MacLeish studied law, but continued to write, and in his spare time the university published a book of his works. After Yale, MacLeish decided to focus on his poetry, his new wife, and his children. During this free period he wrote his first collaboration entitled Tower of Ivory. Then in 1917 he went to France to serve in the war as a private. He went from private to captain in just one year of service. Upon his return to the United States MacLeish began teaching at Harvard. While there he taught international law and constitutional law, which greatly improved his grammatical skills. MacLeish was accepted by the Massachusetts Bar Association in 1920. He began practicing law in Boston and continued to do so for three years. MacLeish then returned to France to concentrate on his writing. While in France MacLeish spent a lot of time outdoors, so he wrote down what he saw and what he thought of it. During his stay in France, MacLeish wrote the poems "The Happy Marriage", "The Pot of Earth", and the controversial poem about religion called "Nobodaddy". In the same year he wrote A. MacLeish's Hamlet. This book was a tribute to Shakespeare, but his work reflected that of his fellow poet, T.