Poetry for Students

Volume 19 3 the second through sixth lines, she uses a long sen- tence to go into more detail about the physical ef- fects of de ...

4 Poetry for Students in line twenty-seven, Bass notes that genetic engi- neering sometimes crosses even more profound natural b ...

Volume 19 5 interconnected, and it is difficult to discuss one en- vironmental issue without getting into other related issues. ...

6 Poetry for Students childhood, frolicking at the beach, unaware of any- thing bad. Because the poet goes to such great lengths ...

Volume 19 7 cialization of engineered crops. Large firms in the United States bought up many varieties of seeds, and some specul ...

8 Poetry for Students several positive images of nature, such as rain, which pools “on a fallen oak leaf.” She also reflects on ...

Volume 19 9 would one of her babies. The idea of cradling a negative emotion like despair is strange and sets up a compelling im ...

10 Poetry for Students Savr tomato, made by Calgene, that had been en- gineered to stay firm for longer, thus acquiring a longer ...

Volume 19 11 accrues from it. Patents on living organisms have been allowed since a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1980. The pat ...

12 Poetry for Students Steinberg, Mark L., and Sharon D. Cosloy, The Facts on File Dictionary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engin ...

The Boy Marilyn Hacker’s poem “The Boy” first appeared in the Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary Amer- ican Poetryin 1999 and i ...

14 Poetry for Students America today. Known for the acuteness of her ob- servations as well as her formal inventiveness, Hacker ...

Volume 19 15 Poem Summary Stanza 1 In the first stanza of “The Boy,” the narrator questions who it is looking out the window. “T ...

16 Poetry for Students last act in the poem is crossing something out that he just wrote. Themes Chaos and Order Puberty is a ch ...

Volume 19 17 destiny. The shifting pronouns in the poem and the boy’s constant revision of his writing highlight the speaker’s i ...

18 Poetry for Students according to a nationwide survey by the Anti- Defamation League, “Anti-Semitism in America 2002.” The sur ...

Volume 19 19 engaged in creating that world through her words and her imagination. She writes her poem “as if” a boy, living ins ...

20 Poetry for Students face me as I’d face him or her. But there is no such child; it was I who watched the elderly widow (I thi ...

Volume 19 21 ond stanza is another powerful remark about gen- der confusion. He creates something. He takes it away. It is the u ...

22 Poetry for Students like to live with a shifting self-identity that fits no accepted rules. Hacker plays with form and meter ...