Poetry for Students

Volume 19 223 Almost as if he felt that his position as laure- ate and the most popular serious poet in the Eng- lish-speaking w ...

224 Poetry for Students The climax of public recognition of Ten- nyson’s achievement came in 1883 when Gladstone offered him a p ...

Volume 19 225 cellence than any of his contemporaries.... He has expended the treasures of his native talent on broad- ening and ...

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236 Poetry for Students Sources Eliot, T. S., “In Memoriam,” in Tennyson: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Elizabeth F ...

Seven Seeds “Seven Seeds” is a key poem at a turning point of Jill Bialosky’s second book of poetry, Subter- ranean, published i ...

238 Poetry for Students important theme from ancient mythology. This con- ceit, employed to develop new and complex thoughts tha ...

Volume 19 239 entering the bright world, and that she is estab- lishing a reversal of expectation that will become clearer later ...

240 Poetry for Students falling into darkness. Additionally, it represents the blood (through “veins and arteries”) of life, and ...

Volume 19 241 mother—particularly how she reflects on the process of birth. In part she does so by imagining herself in the role ...

242 Poetry for Students Personification As noted in the poem summary above, Bialosky sometimes imbues non-human objects with hum ...