Poetry for Students, Volume 35

‘‘Robert Frost Dies at 88; Kennedy Leads in Tribute,’’ New York Times, January 30, 1963. Smiley, Gene, ‘‘U.S. Economy in the 192 ...

Blackberry Eating Galway Kinnell’s ‘‘Blackberry Eating’’ appears in his fifteenth collection of poetry,Mortal Acts, Mortal Words ...

laude in 1948. The following year he received a master’s of art degree from the University of Rochester. After completing his ed ...

which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry-eating in late Septem ...

benefit of eating the blackberries. Where before the action was the taking in or consuming, now the action is forcing out or exp ...

the poet, nature also feeds his creative force. ‘‘Blackberry Eating’’ offers an idealistic view of nature, in which all the berr ...

for example, by definition or by the meaning they have in a given context. For example, the words ‘‘black blackberries’’ alliter ...

just the first year, but by the deadline for ratifi- cation in 1982, only thirty-five of the necessary thirty-eight states had v ...

James Jones, was the leader of one of these cults, which Jones eventually moved to Guyana in South America. Because of reports t ...

poem. But of the book as a whole, Bloom stated thatMortal Acts, Mortal Wordsis the ‘‘weakest volume so far by a poet who cannot ...

is able to imagine the taste of blackberries and feel their texture as the speaker describes squeez- ing them slightly. The read ...

the first 8 lines of Kinnell’s sonnet. In the description of the size, shape, texture, temper- ature, and color of the blackberr ...

Within the objects of Kinnell’s language, there is an insistence on the ordinary object as the right carrier for meaning; as if ...

bleaknesses; or will the dark mortalities have their edges bleached by sentimental compro- mise? If we take seriously Stevens’ p ...

who never belonged to us, someone it is useless to think about or remember. The task of this elegy is to accept the abso- lute l ...

the whole game finishes. What we get next, in this book—and so many others like it plumping the domestic, the filial, the ordina ...

beating, featherless arms already clutching at the emptiness. As babies leave the kingdom of the infinite, and pass through the ...

book is ‘‘nothing but an effort to face death and live with death,’’ Kinnell goes on to describe the special connection that inf ...

poets, have to live their lives as people, rather than as symbolic portents, nevertheless, the absence of one of the earlier sym ...

pond where an old fisherman in a rowboat sits, drowning hookedworms, when he’s gone he’s replaced and is never gone And then we ...