Poetry for Students

Volume 19 243 The Myth of Persephone and Demeter Sources provide varying reasons why the god of the underworld, Hades, seized Pe ...

244 Poetry for Students The myth of Demeter and Persephone has been significant to American women’s writing since the late ninet ...

Volume 19 245 of Demeter, like the teenage girls in “The Fall” and “Adolescent Suicide,” has some preconceived ideas about what ...

246 Poetry for Students Ryan D. Poquette Poquette has a bachelor’s degree in English and specializes in writing about literature ...

Volume 19 247 is too fresh in the speaker’s mind and she is hav- ing a hard time letting go. Dark thoughts start to creep into t ...

248 Poetry for Students Again, Bialosky is subtle and does not indicate that she is talking about a fruit, or that the fruit is ...

Volume 19 249 including his version of the Demeter-Persephone myth. Homer,The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Com- mentary ...

Social Life Tony Hoagland’s poetry focuses primarily on con- temporary issues in middle and upper class America, especially in m ...

Volume 19 251 ems that help draw a slim profile of him. Growing up in white, middle-class American suburbia—a theme in much of h ...

252 Poetry for Students strolling through the air to mingle with the aura of a honeysuckle bush, 35 and when they bump together ...

Volume 19 253 imagination has escaped to the “wild sweet dark” where the sounds in his ears are much different from those that i ...

254 Poetry for Students Lines 40–43 In these lines, the speaker draws closer to the central theme of the poem, opting to “stand ...

Volume 19 255 pearances in cities and suburbs across America every day and night, many human inhabitants of these areas are blin ...

256 Poetry for Students brought significant and unimagined political, eco- nomic, and emotional change, not only for citizens of ...

Volume 19 257 writing I’ve encountered in a long time.” Six years later, in a Library Journalbook review of Donkey Gospel, criti ...

258 Poetry for Students they seek only a short moment of time to feel im- portant, to be rejuvenated and worthy of “pollina- tio ...

Volume 19 259 Adrian Blevins Blevins has published essays and poems in many magazines, journals, and anthologies and teaches wri ...

260 Poetry for Students and a regular cloud into a “Jennifer-shaped cloud,” his goal is to comment on his own interests in and o ...

Volume 19 261 In his Academy of American Poets citation for awarding Donkey Gospel the James Laughlin Award in 1997, William Mat ...

262 Poetry for Students In the most resonant of Hoagland’s poems the thin and somewhat brittle social surface opens up to reveal ...