Poetry for Students

Volume 19 163 evitability of death should cause people to cherish the life experiences that they do have. The speaker indicates ...

164 Poetry for Students materialist who comes to understand that matter is so much more than it appears to be: If ever there was ...

Volume 19 165 Julie Gleason Alford In the following essay, Alford discusses Ack- erman’s life and writings. Diane Ackerman is on ...

166 Poetry for Students I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail” (Contemporary Poets, 19 ...

Volume 19 167 history, biology, anthropology, cultural fact, and folklore, woven together with poetic inspiration to celebrate t ...

168 Poetry for Students witty verse “Anne Donne to Her Husband” and the sonnet “Quixote” (“life’s torpor is the blazing sa- vann ...

Volume 19 169 Juana’s life; the triumph is her poetry, which has survived the centuries to tell her story. The philosophy in mos ...

170 Poetry for Students Plath “wore like a shroud.” Ackerman refers to Plath as “the doll of insight we knew / to whom nearly al ...

Volume 19 171 technical requirements of the form, its predominant imagery and themes, and its relationship with Indian music. Ri ...

Ordinary Words Ruth Stone’s poem “Ordinary Words” is the title poem of her 1999 collection Ordinary Words. A mere seventeen line ...

Volume 19 173 scurity than with any quality of her poetry. It has only been in the last few years that her work has gained the n ...

174 Poetry for Students that marriage was not all she believed it would be. “Dull dregs” signifies something that is left over. ...

Volume 19 175 comforts that middle-class life would bring. By linking social class and beauty with marriage, Stone’s poem perpet ...

176 Poetry for Students press founded by Jan Freeman to present the work of neglected women writers. Starting a press and publis ...

Volume 19 177 of a postwar economic expansion, and soldiers who had married after returning from the war were now having childre ...

178 Poetry for Students We speak—our brains speak for us, in a way. It’s all very rapid. But it’s not consciously considered, I ...

Volume 19 179 pressures of the lived life that she cannot afford time for philosophizing or moralizing. Stone’s second volume de ...

180 Poetry for Students in the mundane. “The Artist” is revelatory, show- ing the painter in his own painting—an old orien- tal ...

Volume 19 181 Perhaps it is this wide range, one of Stone’s best characteristics, that, paradoxically, has caused the work of th ...

182 Poetry for Students colored “fluttering intimacies of life.” The laundry in this poem shines in memory and gleams with the e ...