Poetry for Students
62 Poetry for Students The same remark I shd be inclined to make upon the fraudulent banker. You have painted a very vigorous pi ...
Volume 24 63 Save next a roof, or where a roof has been; Its knot-grass, plantain,—all the social weeds, Man’s mute companions, ...
64 Poetry for Students styles did not disturb Motley; what disturbed him was any intrusion of the Actual. “Artistic feeling” req ...
Volume 24 65 1857 it were second nature to do so. As a directive for both the critic and writer, this standard carried weight we ...
For the Sake of Strangers Dorianne Laux’s “For the Sake of Strangers” first appeared in her second poetry collection, What We Ca ...
Volume 24 67 universality of human experience. The people are strangers to the speaker in the poem, but they are not strangers t ...
68 Poetry for Students Laux begins by stating that no matter how dif- ficult it is to carry the weight of grief, it has to be do ...
Volume 24 69 through the glass door held open by the patient woman in lines 6 and 7. The speaker also encoun- ters a boy who gla ...
70 Poetry for Students actively. Passively, she accepts the help of strang- ers and interprets their actions in a way that makes ...
Volume 24 71 Critical Overview Critics often describe Laux’s poetic voice as strong and convincing. In the Women’s Review of Boo ...
72 Poetry for Students her poetry, because they tell the stories and de- scribe the feelings of many women. Laux’s forthright st ...
Volume 24 73 though she does so cautiously (it is a door through which she can see, after all), the decision indicates that she ...
74 Poetry for Students Consequently, they are obliged to help her. In the opening line, the strangers are also “we.” Read it aga ...
Volume 24 75 suggests an intentionalact of kindness, a courtesy performed by someone anxious to do a good deed. The woman who ho ...
76 Poetry for Students she typically considers so taxing. Her ultimate as- sessment is that there is enough common good in human ...
Volume 24 77 its battered rear end thinned to scallops of rust, pumping grim shrouds of exhaust into the shimmering air—even the ...
78 Poetry for Students musical mandates sometimes? Especially in a “symphonic” poem? Yes, rhythm and rhyme; in my case, internal ...
Volume 24 79 For the Sake of Strangers ...
80 Poetry for Students Source:Roger Housden, “Back from the Edge,” in Ten Po- ems to Last a Lifetime, Harmony Books, 2004, pp. 5 ...
Volume 24 81 medium is the autobiographical lyric-narrative poem, but one so thoroughly grounded in the real world that it becom ...
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