Poetry for Students

True Night “True Night” by Gary Snyder was first published in 1983 in Snyder’s collection of poems, Axe Han- dles. The poem tell ...

284 Poetry for Students Harold and Lois Snyder. His family moved to Wash- ington and then to Oregon, and Snyder attended high sc ...

Volume 19 285 are more than one—are too quick for him. They race around the corner, go out of the kitchen, and climb up a tree. ...

286 Poetry for Students After he rises, he shouts and is ready to chase the raccoons away with a stick. He still shouts at them ...

Volume 19 287 Onomatopoeia In lines 3 and 4, “Comes a clatter / Comes a clatter,” the alliteration and repetition create an onom ...

288 Poetry for Students All,” the last poem in Axe Handles, makes this abundantly clear. The poem restates the Pledge of Allegia ...

Volume 19 289 various promises he had made in his life and his poetry.” Murphy also suggested that the final lines of the poem, ...

290 Poetry for Students mental transformation, an emptying of the individ- ual mind, that is the goal of meditation in the Bud- ...

Volume 19 291 Snyder addressed this issue in “The East West Interview,” in The Real Work. He pointed out that the purpose of Zen ...

292 Poetry for Students of the highest peaks in the Northwest. His enthu- siasm for the landscape of the Pacific Slope is echoed ...

Volume 19 293 Pursuing a dual major in literature and anthropol- ogy, he wrote a thesis in his senior year that ana- lyzed a myt ...

294 Poetry for Students In the fall of 1955 Snyder took up residence in Berkeley. There he met the poet Allen Ginsberg, who had ...

Volume 19 295 and a new edition of Riprap, which included his translations of the “Cold Mountain Poems” of the ancient Chinese p ...

296 Poetry for Students to as “Mountain Misery”—a name suggestive of the cultural attitude the poet seeks to change. In his 1995 ...

Volume 19 297 dens we are being called by nature and history to reinhabit in good spirit. Part of that responsibility is to choo ...

298 Poetry for Students Although his literary education reflected the formalist criticism of the time, anthropology ex- posed hi ...

Volume 19 299 his difference from it. In “Milton by Firelight,” Sa- tan is compared to the poet’s trail-crew leader, Roy Marchba ...

300 Poetry for Students destructive or productive of integral relations. It is closely linked to shamanism, which is in turn lin ...

Volume 19 301 In some ways Snyder’s least political volume, The Back Countrycovers about a decade of his life. The title can be ...

302 Poetry for Students year, in which Snyder takes his predilection for the metonymic list to an extreme. The next section, “Ka ...