Poetry for Students

Volume 19 303 Turtle Island(1974), Snyder’s most success- ful and highly regarded book, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1975. The fir ...

304 Poetry for Students establishment during a rest from the road: “My long hair was tucked up under a cap / I’d left the ear- r ...

Volume 19 305 climb and the ground we walk on have given us five fingers and toes. The ‘place’... gave us far-seeing eyes, the s ...

306 Poetry for Students This delighted kinetic experience of contiguity— not alienation, not fusion—opens to the single line, “I ...

Volume 19 307 that clog it in an ascesis that marks the beginning of his quest. In Riprap(1959) he turns from Amer- ica toward t ...

308 Poetry for Students labor (“Working on the ’58 Willys Pickup,” “Get- ting in the Wood”). And, as ever, he writes with great ...

Volume 19 309 section, absorbed in description of his home region and his daily domestic life. Elsewhere in the book readers may ...

310 Poetry for Students sledge, peavey and maul, / little axe, canteen, piggy-back can / of saw-mix gas and oil for the chain, / ...

Glossary of Literary Terms A Abstract:Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an ad- ...

312 Poetry for Students ature was originally passed on by word of mouth, so it consisted largely of stories and events that were ...

Volume 19 313 Works of this period often mirror the qualities of works more generally associated with the label “baroque” and so ...

314 Poetry for Students Catharsis:The release or purging of unwanted emotions—specifically fear and pity—brought about by exposu ...

Volume 19 315 “schools,” sometimes producing conflicting, even contradictory, interpretations of literature in gen- eral as well ...

316 Poetry for Students written as the soliloquy of a shepherd. In later cen- turies, “eclogue” came to refer to any poem that w ...

Volume 19 317 guish. The two strains hold certain beliefs in com- mon: that existence cannot be fully understood or described th ...

318 Poetry for Students Tradition emphasized conventionality in social, re- ligious, moral, and literary standards. Georgian Age ...

Volume 19 319 Humors:Mentions of the humors refer to the an- cient Greek theory that a person’s health and per- sonality were de ...

320 Poetry for Students L Lais:SeeLay Lake Poets:SeeLake School Lake School:These poets all lived in the Lake Dis- trict of Engl ...

Volume 19 321 gle work of literature or occurs in a number of dif- ferent works over a period of time. Motiv:SeeMotif Muckrakers ...

322 Poetry for Students literature. The New Critics saw little merit in his- torical and biographical analysis. Rather, they aim ...