Poetry for Students

Volume 19 123 This desire for an escape, a journey to another place and a new beginning is expressed in the first stanza of “The ...

124 Poetry for Students oppressive society the encounter would probably have led to an adventure; instead it led to a poem, and ...

Volume 19 125 that the acceptance of life as its own justification on the one hand “constituted Cavafy’s own free- dom and enabl ...

126 Poetry for Students Some other poems of this period are spiritual journeys of a different kind in which the purpose of the p ...

Volume 19 127 “Their Beginning,” 1915). But in the last decade, after 1920, its is described as an “exquisite erotic pleasure” ( ...

128 Poetry for Students Sources Auden, W. H., Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, Random House, 1958, pp. 71–73. Bien, Peter, Consta ...

Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity Sandra Cisneros’s poem “Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity” is from her thi ...

130 Poetry for Students father and Mexican American mother. She was the only daughter in a family of seven. Because her fa- ther ...

Volume 19 131 Next, the speaker says she would bang cym- bals like in a Chinese opera. Chinese opera makes frequent use of percu ...

132 Poetry for Students refers to Albert Einstein’s special theory of rela- tivity, published in 1905, and his general theory of ...

Volume 19 133 Love as the Origin of Art The last two lines of the poem suggest that love is the fuel of art and creativity. The ...

134 Poetry for Students This period, sometimes known as the Chicano Re- naissance, was in part inspired by the Civil Rights move ...

Volume 19 135 plex; the diction is straightforward and the mean- ings of the poems usually reveal themselves on the first readin ...

136 Poetry for Students Poem,” “I’m the crazy lady they warned you about.” In many of these poems, Cisneros clearly al- ludes to ...

Volume 19 137 ships, magic, myth, religion, and politics figure prominently in Cisneros’ work, providing a rich ma- trix for her ...

138 Poetry for Students InWoman Hollering Creek, published in 1991, in contrast to those living on Mango Street, women struggle ...

Volume 19 139 1993 interview, “You had to be fast and you had to be funny—you had to be a storyteller.” Since her Mexican father ...

140 Poetry for Students novel, a woman is locked in by her husband, a young girl is brutally beaten by her father, and Es- peran ...

Volume 19 141 mother. Her practice of interspersing Spanish terms and phrases in her writing, especially notable in Woman Holler ...

142 Poetry for Students is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five min- utes.” On the other hand, under the spell of telen ...