Poetry for Students, Volume 35

The octave opens colloquially, gives us a gen- eral location and an unspecified number of clerks; thespeakeristhepoet,aspoetanda ...

third, vision; the fourth, a stasis in which the mother seems to accept her son’s unusual merit andherownvisionofhimasreal;thefi ...

She crowns him with her gratefulness, And says again that life is good; And should the gift of God be less In him than in her mo ...

Further Reading Hagedorn, Herman,Edwin Arlington Robinson, Macmillan, 1939. Published soon after Robinson’s death, this first bi ...

Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky’s poem ‘‘Odysseus to Telema- chus’’ was written in 1972 at the time when Joseph Brodsky em ...

extensive endeavor of self-education, teaching himself English and Polish and studying religion, classical mythology, and philos ...

with bushes, buildings, and great grunting pigs. A garden choked with weeds; some queen or other. Grassandhugestones...Telemachu ...

efforts have added up to. Energy spent now and well-aware of the costs of warfare in human life and its effect on families back ...

Trickery as a Determining Factor in Events Each stanza suggests the malignant effect of super- natural trickery on human intenti ...

his losses. The classical construct serves as a vehicle for exploring the feelings that might very well hound a man who has comm ...

forced to leave the USSR, but that number jumped to about 250,000 during the 1970s. The Trojan War The Trojan War was a conflict ...

and the Sea of Marmara. Troy was located slightly inland from the southern opening of this water- way. In this extended conflict ...

Joseph Brodsky, whoseSelected Poemsis a rev- elation of the power of the word living in the cracks of silence.’’ According to Co ...

preserves this truth like a piece of dried fruit does its pit or a pod its seeds. Through centuries of germination and seasons o ...

daughters. The historical catalyst for this French revival was the collaboration of some French people with the Nazis in 1942 an ...

months before Paris was liberated. Increasingly in post-World War II France and elsewhere in the Allied countries, Anouilh’sAnti ...

heard of again. These American readers may have come to imagine the stretched seas that slowed the return for injured veterans, ...

his Nobel Prize speech where he lists the poets who conditioned and molded his talent. These poets were his own ‘‘beloved Greeks ...

become inseparable. The expression ‘‘rastianut’ vremia’’ in Russian is also used in the meaning of ‘‘wasting time,’’ and here th ...

that they are nobody because that is the only way to avoid annihilation. However, Odysseus still feels an emotional connection t ...