Poetry for Students, Volume 35

light of something he tells us later in the poem: ‘‘Only a dark tone, an inclination toward a pecu- liar Manichean / strain of C ...

approvingly of ‘‘Helene’s Religion’’: ‘‘On Sunday I go to church and pray with all the others. / Who am I to think I am differen ...

readers. They would wonder how such a serious writer could take seriously the Marian apparitions at Lourdes and Fatima. Believin ...

Lane, Bernard, ‘‘Miloszian Moments,’’ inQuadrant, Vol. 49, No. 9, September 2005, pp. 67–71. Along with biographical information ...

Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem ‘‘Miniver Cheevy’’ (1910) is the portrait of a man who is discontent with the wor ...

father was a prosperous lumber man, taking advantage of Gardiner’s financial boom. His brother Dean was twelve years older than ...

Miniver loved the Medici, Albeit he had never seen one; He would have sinned incessantly Could he have been one. 20 Miniver curs ...

follow a strict code of conduct, the code of chivalry, even at the expense of their own safety. Priam, referred to in line 12, w ...

shirks personal responsibility by claiming that he was fated to be miserable. Themes Alienation Psychologists have called aliena ...

has this excuse for his misery, he can postpone indefinitely the question of why he does not feel comfortable in his own world. ...

The use of alternating masculine and femi- nine rhyme and the use of verbal irony work together to convey two versions simultane ...

literature. Authors tried to mirror in their works what life was really like for ordinary people. Deter- ministic and pessimisti ...

that, the poet was able to support himself as a writer, and his reputation grew. A sign of the respectaccordedtoRobinsonwhenhewa ...

In the following essay, he describes how Robinson’s technical style allows him to use language that might seem excessive in anot ...

Certain kinds of work choice can make readers feel that the author is talking about a level deeper than their interpretation can ...

Louis Coxe In the following essay, Coxe decries the neglect of Edwin Arlington Robinson as a poet and identifies strengths that ...

total communication by means of suggestion andstatement,withnoregardforthepoetas speaker; that is, the attitudes out of which th ...

manages to alter his whole nature and his way of life. The variations on the theme are many. The tone can be somber and tragic, ...

Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs, Of age, were she to lose him. The epigrammatic tone of the verse strikes one immediately. We ...

about this story. He has kept us constantly aware of place, time, actors, andactioneventhoughsuch awareness is only lightly prov ...