Poetry for Students

Volume 19 83 20 million people across the world participated in demonstrations and events to mark the occasion. This event is ce ...

84 Poetry for Students Criticism David Kelly Kelly is a creative writing and literature in- structor at two colleges in Illinois ...

Volume 19 85 rience the world, which he defines here by its lim- its. He contrasts the city, with its limitations, to the limitl ...

86 Poetry for Students be open to the natural world, not fear it. That is a message that we would all like to believe, but the p ...

Volume 19 87 of the “when” clause—is a common rhetorical de- vice in poetry. Walt Whitman used the technique extensively, and it ...

88 Poetry for Students gests, the setting is at the city limits, among the flora and fauna of the rural world. Ammons is sim- pl ...

Volume 19 89 more mobile and improvisatory (rather than ritual- ized, as before). Mapping may be the operative term for what the ...

90 Poetry for Students even clearer in “Saliences” than in the more famous “Corson’s Inlet”: where not a single thing endures, t ...

Volume 19 91 ing mind. The correspondences of soul/region con- vert to correspondences within the geography it- self—“where it t ...

92 Poetry for Students Daniel Hoffmann Martha Sutro In the following essay, Hoffman and Sutro ex- amine the canon of Ammons’s wo ...

Volume 19 93 Farm,” a meditative poem of fifty-one stanzas, “I like nature poetry / where the brooks are never damned up... ” Hi ...

94 Poetry for Students Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey, Louisiana State University Press, 1998. In ...

His Speed and Strength “His Speed and Strength,” published in Alicia Os- triker’s 1980 collection The Mother/Child Papers, is a ...

96 Poetry for Students concern for his mother and a sense of connection to other boys as he goes off to play. Seeing both mascul ...

Volume 19 97 of ten. Though the word “years” holds comic sur- prise here, the poet causes readers to keep both ideas in their he ...

98 Poetry for Students Lines 13–14 The rest of line 12 through the end of the stanza presents images of earthly oppositions synt ...

Volume 19 99 rather than his mother is a final sign that he is leav- ing childhood and growing up. The last words of the poem, “ ...

100 Poetry for Students progresses, one might think that perhaps there is hope for this generation of males, that maybe they can ...

Volume 19 101 a Hollywood actor, Reagan’s charisma and strong will had helped him win the California governor’s race twice. Anyb ...

102 Poetry for Students Relationships in Alicia Ostriker’s Poetry,” analyzes Ostriker’s treatment of the “ambivalence” and “ten- ...