Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 161 can end up determining people’s physical circum- stances—the bloodless word “disturbances” trans- lates to the nar ...

162 Poetry for Students capture God, because there exists nothing on the earth that can be compared with Him. “To whom then will ...

Volume 10 163 or what it actually was. More importantly, it is un- clear whether such a place even existed. Through- out the poe ...

164 Poetry for Students not chosen to riot, the police would not have ar- rested them. On the other hand, Graham implies that on ...

Volume 10 165 Henry, Brian, “Exquisite Disjunctions, Exquisite Arrange- ments: Jorie Graham’s ‘Strangeness of Strategy,’” in The ...

How We Heard the Name Written in 1956, “How We Heard the Name” ap- peared in the multiple award-winning Poemsof While Alan Duga ...

Volume 10 167 Author Biography Alan Dugan was born on February 12, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended school in Brook- lyn ...

168 Poetry for Students tone is conversational, musing, but also matter-of- fact. The narrator of the poem is reporting some- th ...

Volume 10 169 states, with the exception of Sparta, whose citizens also went by the name of Lacedaemonians. Lines 20-24: Only no ...

170 Poetry for Students Like the shepherd, he is a man of introspection and observation, marked by history, rather than mark- in ...

Volume 10 171 verse, line breaks can come at the logical end of a thought or sentence, as, for example, in line 14. This is know ...

172 Poetry for Students the so-called Iron Curtain of Soviet influence fol- lowing World War II, revolted against Soviet op- pre ...

Volume 10 173 Many critics, like Thomas McClanahan, praise the proud dignity and relentless honesty of Dugan’s work: “He faces t ...

174 Poetry for Students ting, as well as of the narrator and the audience, is not that important, although the poem ultimately d ...

Volume 10 175 eerie echo of Lewis Carroll’s “Humpty Dumpty”) and phrases (“the river” begins and ends the first sentence of the ...

176 Poetry for Students But is he correct in this attitude? The shep- herds are not quite as unsophisticated as Mem- non believe ...

Volume 10 177 midst of the wreckage of war. Yet he too seems un- affected. In fact, he is so nonchalant the speaker wonders if t ...

178 Poetry for Students outcomes of the battle despite his seeming indif- ference to it. A reader can also shed light on “How We ...

Volume 10 179 Alexander came close to losing his head, literally, in a tangle with the Persian military leaders, he was victorio ...

180 Poetry for Students battle victories and medals of honor are not all that heroes share in common, but that a trail of blood- ...