Poetry for Students

Volume 19 63 making and female anatomy. Yet, it is in the sub- tle structural details that Ondaatje’s true art, and his ability ...

64 Poetry for Students bed.” Using the verb “ride” connotes a way in which humans exert their will over an animal, like a horse. ...

Volume 19 65 my hands.” Their children will receive all the honor, class distinction, and communal ties of the Salagama, a gift ...

66 Poetry for Students This poem itself takes the form of a daydream; the narrator wonders aloud to his lover what it would be l ...

Volume 19 67 But, this image is abruptly interrupted by the woman who suddenly “climb[s] the bank.” She leaves the water to retu ...

68 Poetry for Students between the short lines of lyric and the long lines that actually become prose or prose poetry. His work ...

Volume 19 69 portant anthology of young poets, New Wave Canada(1966). When Ondaatje won the univer- sity’s Epstein Award for Poe ...

70 Poetry for Students dom, then promptly threatened to betray. Ondaatje began with these drawings and Nolan’s series of paintin ...

Volume 19 71 the Wild West motif. The book has been interpreted by some as a parable of the artist/outlaw, but On- daatje has co ...

72 Poetry for Students and line are generally more relaxed, the tone more humorous and casual. Ondaatje’s genius for vivid image ...

Volume 19 73 Billy the Kiddoes, with the writer alone in a room: “Thirty-one years old. There are no prizes.” Bolden’s relations ...

74 Poetry for Students century game of fame,” he brings self-conscious- ness into his uncertainties. He compares himself, needin ...

Volume 19 75 poetics, the writer looks for a language which, like the love he seeks, names but does not dominate, which connects ...

76 Poetry for Students terdisciplinary Study of Literature, Vol. 29, No. 3, Septem- ber 1996, pp. 97–116. Further Reading Jewins ...

The City Limits Like much of A. R. Ammons’s poetry, “The City Limits” explores the uneasy relationship between modern civilizati ...

78 Poetry for Students Author Biography Archie Randolph Ammons was born on February 18, 1926, at his parents’ farmhouse near Whi ...

Volume 19 79 Poem Text Lines 1–3 The first stanza of “The City Limits” does not consist of just one unit of language: it starts ...

80 Poetry for Students yet to be defined seem even more mysterious to readers. The fourth stanza begins by building this object ...

Volume 19 81 ferent than things found in nature. Here, the scope of nature is represented as “the radiance,” an im- age that is ...

82 Poetry for Students Each line of “The City Limits” has eight stressed syllables. One-syllable words are some- times accented, ...