Poetry for Students, Volume 35

critic of Stevens’s ordinary habits, would see the resulting amenability as an attainment of Stevens’s prized ‘‘ordinary world,’ ...

become the credible, imagination to become fact, ‘‘brilliantest descriptions of new day, / Before it comes’’ to be a ‘‘just anti ...

than a locus for Stevens’s ‘‘carefully modulated effort to assert the historicity of poetry and the political power of poets’’ ( ...

in the last stanza, see daytime facts as one’s own nighttime creations. Such a transformation would achieve what ‘‘The Blue Guit ...

surprised accords’’ thatis manifest in temporal cycles, the men of ‘‘Blue Guitar’’ find succor in a similarly indigenous music, ...

forbids the best expectation; the poet of ‘‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’’ would replace the unreliable teleology of political s ...

Stevens could not avoid this question long. ‘‘Esthe ́tique du Mal,’’ a few years later, explicitly considers the interrelation o ...

one’s present setting and of any possible immi- nence. The scene realizes the project of a poem as early as ‘‘Sunday Morning,’’ ...

mastery of repetition, in which his thoughts play consort to the ‘‘Queen of Fact’’: Sunrise is his garment’s hem, sunset is hers ...

Guitar,’’ deepens its joyful possibility in ‘‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,’’ and strengthens its existential power in ‘‘An Or ...

River of August ‘‘River of August’’ was written in 1963 by Korean poet Pak Tu-Jin. (Pak is the family name and Tu- Jin is the gi ...

Author Biography Pak Tu-Jin was born on March 10, 1916, in Anseong, Kyonggi province, forty miles to the south of Seoul in South ...

lengths vary with line breaks coming according to the emphasis the poet wants to place on a thought. Of course, the meaning shou ...

Stanza 6 This last stanza suggests an army’s march to the sea on a noble quest. After the initial repetition of the full name ‘‘ ...

up with the kinds of troubles they had in 1963. Pak believed that this could happen, that Korea could once again reach for the s ...

Transcendence One way to express the overall theme of ‘‘River of August’’ is to use the word transcendence. The river has passed ...

Historical Context Korean Poetry Korean poetry has a rich history that goes back to the fourth centuryB.C. Since the Korean alph ...

introduced new methods with language and form. In particular, a modernist group called the Later Years gained critical recogniti ...

river flowing to the ocean in order to instill hope in Koreans by asking them to remember their ideals that were as high as the ...

organizations, and arrested dissidents. Thus sub- jugated, Korea was officially a colony of Japan. Occupation meant that all goo ...