Poetry for Students, Volume 35

about because the year is deflating and everything is running out. The last two lines of this stanza are similar in that the sec ...

were an important source of income for local residents. For early settlers, the Blue Ridge provided wealth from lumber and minin ...

Richard Rand, a critic writing for theHar- vard Review, commented on the greater transpar- ency that came into Wright’s poetry i ...

Wright said himself in Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews(1995) that his sub- jects are ‘‘language, landscape, and the ...

being dead leaves scuttling across the driveway, and he began to think of the silence that on such an occasion descends upon a p ...

Ted Genoways In the following excerpted interview, Charles Wright discusses with Genoways his life, influences on his poetry, id ...

conversational as they are complex. Though he eschews conventional narrative, the forward tug of time dominates. The quotidian a ...

about, but people were leaning toward freer movement in their lines. Syllabics were a halfway house. People had been trying to w ...

diary form to a higher level of artifice. I don’t know exactly how to say that, but I wanted to make it a more serious form, and ...

going to hold it together. So the way I layered impressions, images, the observations, is key to covert, unspoken narrative, but ...

turn into an essayist, because I can’t keep the thoughts straight. If I’d had a life, I could have written a memoir. I never got ...

and logic/reasoning (Quarter Notes,34).Theimage is the figure upon which he structures and builds. Many of Wright’s early poems ...

memory, this trace of memory, is then packed away: ...Iwent to sleep And never told anyone Till years later when I thought I kne ...

suggesting that we read the poem for its ‘‘solu- tion.’’ On the contrary, the tensions the poem generates may instead be enterta ...

in the clarity of all that he senses, that he will one day make his ‘‘slow rise through the dark toward the sweet wrists of the ...

are full of wonder and singularity, lifeline to the unseen’’ (Halflife, 9). The opening lines of the second section of ‘‘Homage’ ...

At evening we wait for the rain to fall and the sky to clear. Our words are words for the clay, uttered in undertones, Our gestu ...

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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 adje ...

Alliteration:A poetic device where the first con- sonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables are repeated. Allusion ...