‘Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow’ by Robert Duncan is often regarded as the poet’s best work. It analyzes the poet’s dream of a meadow while also exploring the new technique of projective verse.
‘Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow’ reaches toward the spiritual realm, tracing Duncan's own beliefs about spirituality. As a learned theologist, Duncan's interpretation of his dream is that he is somewhere beyond the physical realm in a place where the divine light, the creator of the universe, manifests forms and structure within the universe.