Poetry for Students, Volume 31

of moths: ‘‘Ghost-swift moths with their dancing assemblies at dusk. / Their courtship swarms.’’ Some ‘‘steer by / the moon.’’ A ...

exclusionary bardic tradition that relegates women to myth and muse (Consalvo 92–93, Reizbaum 479, Wright 10). Book X ofThe Repu ...

many years as a literary journalist. Her first collection of poems,New Territory, appeared in Since then she has produced six b ...

sense of a delicate under-structure throughout Boland’s work. At the end of this poem, the woman in the painting becomes the poe ...

The power and sweep of the sequence is a function of the silences into which it taps. The silences of women in these poems are a ...

Yes, there’s a huge amount of literary activ- ity going in Galway. Jessie Lendennie [poet- editor of Salmon Press in Galway] was ...

should be kept up to bring these male resistances into the open. About five years ago you would have found male writers saying, ...

are they putting together the Irish poem differ- ently?’’ That is the real question. They are put- ting it together differently, ...

compare and contrast their work. Also pro- vided are a personal statement composed by each poet as well as a bibliography of eac ...

Runagate Runagate ‘‘Runagate Runagate’’ is a poem by American poet Robert Hayden. It was first published in The Poetry of the Ne ...

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY American poet Robert Hayden was born on August 4, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan, to Asa Shef- fey and Ruth Flinn, ...

The runaway slave must cross a river, while legendary monsters (jack-muh-lanterns) five feet tall try to lure him into the swamp ...

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1883), Thomas Garrett (1789– 1871), Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), H ...

hunted like animals, with dogs trying to pick up their scent, they are propelled by the immensity of their suffering, which fuel ...

Imagery of Darkness and Light The imagery of darknessand light is employed in the poem to create the effect of journeying from t ...

the stationmaster would send a message, often coded, to the next station, alerting the agent there that the fugitives were on th ...

also notes the wider significance of the Under- ground Railroad as ‘‘a full-fledged grassroots resistance movement, representing ...

lived in Auburn, New York, where she became an advocate of women’s rights. She died on March 10, 1913. The Civil Rights Movement ...

more than the African American community, which saw the dramatic success of the civil rights movement in the early part of the d ...

modern American history and culture.‘‘ How- ever, it is interesting to return to that poem of the 1960s, ‘‘Runagate Runagate,’’ ...