Poetry for Students

Volume 19 103 can apply to many situations, such as winning a competition, much of Greek mythology deals with conflict and war, ...

104 Poetry for Students in the poem directly with military weaponry such as rockets, the poet is noting that this ten-year-old b ...

Volume 19 105 somewhere in their psyches was the idea that hav- ing children was somehow detrimental to women’s progress. The ro ...

106 Poetry for Students role, Ostriker appears to be saying, they enhance it. They give as much as they take. Furthering this id ...

Volume 19 107 Ostriker received her B.A. in English from Brandeis University in 1959, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University ...

108 Poetry for Students ile environment of an American hospital, where, during labor, she was given an unwanted spinal in- jecti ...

Volume 19 109 mended her “wit, verve and energy” (Poetry, March 1983). Lynda Koolish called the book “Cool, cerebral, studied. P ...

110 Poetry for Students The poetry of Alicia Ostriker consistently chal- lenges limitations. For discovery to take place there m ...

Volume 19 111 luminous sky of clouds, wicked people—was spec- tacle. Glorious theater. The vitality of those hard streets, pover ...

112 Poetry for Students This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the masculine and the feminine, drawing on the original psy ...

Ithaka The first version of “Ithaka” was probably written in 1894. Cavafy revised the poem in 1910, and it was first published i ...

114 Poetry for Students the ninth and last child of Peter (an importer and exporter) and Hariklia Cavafy. His parents had set- t ...

Volume 19 115 destination of any journey, and it can be further un- derstood metaphorically as a journey through life. In line 4 ...

116 Poetry for Students person to the real business of living, which is to enjoy every minute that is available. There is also t ...

Volume 19 117 In “Ithaka,” however, the reverse is true: it is the journey that is valued; the destination is dis- missed as of ...

118 Poetry for Students Egyptian cities referred to in the poem as a seat of learning in ancient times. Alexandria did not exist ...

Volume 19 119 Critical Overview “Ithaka” has long been recognized as one of Cavafy’s finest poems, and one that expresses his ou ...

120 Poetry for Students mirage of living in the future. He seeks to persuade him of the richness of the present moment, the “now ...

Volume 19 121 amongst the scholars in Egyptian cities, the em- phasis in the poem is more on sensual enjoyment than intellectual ...

122 Poetry for Students The common denominator between Cavafy’s two principal preoccupations, the distant Greek past and contemp ...