Poetry for Students, Volume 29

Fraser, Kathleen,Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity; Essays, University of Ala- bama Press, 2000. ...

St. Roach Over the course of a poetic career that kept her in the international spotlight for more than forty years, Muriel Ruke ...

private school in the Bronx, the Fieldston School, and then went to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie before moving back to New Yor ...

Both of these lines start with what could be positive associations, to know the cockroach and to touch it. However, they each en ...

the cultures of others. In line 17, she notes that she passes along the same insular worldview to chil- dren of the next generat ...

about human elements, such as the songs and the language of the subject. Very few readers would miss the point that the things s ...

Style Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphismis the practice in literature of giving human qualities to nonhuman objects. It is often ...

to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. With nearly a century having passed since the end of the Civil War, it beca ...

changes that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s helped many Americans feel, for the first time, that they were truly a part of the ...

any consistent rhyme scheme, meter, line length, or stanza structure. In the absence of any stylistic flourishes, the poem’s mes ...

there are people who live in prejudice, who view others practically like cockroaches, but the wrongness of this is so universall ...

value is only in its faded, timeworn message. That Rukeyser uses such a deceptively simple yet effec- tive structure to convey h ...

in the ‘‘Annotations’’ and ‘‘Textual Notes.’’ Such precision not only corrects the flaws of the earlier Collected Poems;it also ...

mainstay of the Translation Center, an organi- zation that was trying to reclaim this wasteland sector of American letters. She ...

Her experiments tended to be on the side of plenitude rather than restriction, of inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness. For s ...

When We Two Parted (by Lord George Gordon Byron) WHEN WE TWO PARTED Parted’’ is a short lyric poem written in the mid- dle phase ...

following the end of a clandestine romantic rela- tionship. The poem exemplifies the typical romantic lyric prevalent at this po ...

Webster, during this time; she is the subject of ‘‘When We Two Parted.’’ It has been speculated that he wrote the verse in 1813, ...

narrator’s future feelings of sorrow. Mention is made of the woman’s broken promises, and the tarnishing of her reputation. In a ...

According to biographers and to Byron’s 1823 correspondence, he is dismayed at the notion of Lady Frances having become entangle ...