Poetry for Students

182 Poetry for Students understanding of what the poet is trying to say. When the part carried over to the next line is read, th ...

Volume 24 183 the spirit of the dead back to earth and then sending the spirits back to the other side. The festival, Obon, is c ...

184 Poetry for Students Critical Overview “Our Side” was published in the collection Spar- row, which was a National Book Award ...

Volume 24 185 he might find there. Craft was surprised, however, as he began reading. He and several other book re- viewers have ...

186 Poetry for Students lover, readers can fill in the blank with their own spiritual beliefs. The distance may be a god figure. ...

Volume 24 187 bridge the gulf between the living and the dead: the final couplet and the use of pronouns. It is unlikely that a ...

188 Poetry for Students of hang gliders floating ephemerally over the wa- ter, unencumbered by the weight of existence. Life, wh ...

Volume 24 189 committed by way of some built-in distance, some inaccessibility, some frustrating withholding of self. The artist ...

190 Poetry for Students If you go south of Hollywood on LaBrea and turn east on West 3rd Street, you will travel through the hea ...

Volume 24 191 students memorize poems. Brodsky was the kind of poet who committed poems to heart naturally— he learned English b ...

192 Poetry for Students time, she was teaching creative writing at USC, in the same department as T. C. Boyle. The novel is abou ...

Volume 24 193 Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, On Death and Dying, Scribner, 1969, reprint, 1997. This book is a classic study of the sta ...

A Poison Tree “A Poison Tree” is one of the lesser-known of the twenty-six poems William Blake published in 1793 as Songs of Exp ...

Volume 24 195 religious and social morality on the human sensi- bility, suggesting that it stifles the goodness and love inheren ...

196 Poetry for Students And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; 15 My foe outstr ...

Volume 24 197 the Garden of Eden. That fruit seems as if it would offer a world of good, but in the Judeo-Christian story, it ac ...

198 Poetry for Students describes “I,” the interpretation is that in the morn- ing the speaker is happy to see the sight of his ...

Volume 24 199 There are four complete iambic feet: “i TOLD / my WRATH, / my WRATH / did END.” The missing beat at the end of the ...

200 Poetry for Students relatedness between things that may seem unrelated to each other. In “A Poison Tree,” Blake represents a ...

Volume 24 201 machinery for the manufacture of goods. The In- dustrial Revolution and the advent of the factory system not only ...