Poetry for Students

262 Poetry for Students As to how aware the poet is of “what goes on beyond the words,” I just don’t know. Sometimes a reader wi ...

Three To’s and an Oi “Three To’s and an Oi” is in Heather McHugh’s 1999 poetry collection, The Father of the Predica- ments. The ...

264 Poetry for Students deliberate style, McHugh takes the poem from dread to love, from infancy to maturity, from Aeschylus to ...

Volume 24 265 concubine, a battle prize. As soon as she steps into Agamemnon’s palace, Cassandra knows that she will die there. ...

266 Poetry for Students happened, who caused it, and what things would be like if the mistake had not occurred. The sec- ond sta ...

Volume 24 267 who is blessed with the gift of prophecy but later cursed with being unable to convince anyone that her prediction ...

268 Poetry for Students Introspection The point of “Three To’s and an Oi” is to make readers think about the truths that they ca ...

Volume 24 269 recent decades. By the end of the twentieth cen- tury, it had become rare for poets to support them- selves financ ...

270 Poetry for Students “accomplished volume of poems, which illumi- nates how the contradictions and dualities con- cealed in l ...

Volume 24 271 the first part. The second section starts not with to- wardness but with its opposite, with boys and girls “reelin ...

272 Poetry for Students any number of other complaints that a person may bemoan. “Three To’s and an Oi” is an example of po- etr ...

Volume 24 273 clinical, or removed, or clever about these lin- guistic observations; it’s just the way it is, for this group of ...

274 Poetry for Students she had written. She says, “My bet is this: to that early acceptance I owe the whole trail of profes- si ...

Volume 24 275 at the Dodge Poetry Festival. She is a frequent crowd-wower (and received the International Po- etry Forum’s Chari ...

276 Poetry for Students to wonder about her relation to the observed world, “a starscape cast / about my minor part” in which de ...

Glossary of Literary Terms A Abstract:Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an ad- ...

278 Poetry for Students ature was originally passed on by word of mouth, so it consisted largely of stories and events that were ...

Volume 24 279 Works of this period often mirror the qualities of works more generally associated with the label “baroque” and so ...

280 Poetry for Students Catharsis: The release or purging of unwanted emotions—specifically fear and pity—brought about by expos ...

Volume 24 281 “schools,” sometimes producing conflicting, even contradictory, interpretations of literature in gen- eral as well ...