Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Landscape with Tractor Originally published in the Summer, 1983 issue of Ploughshares, “Landscape with Tractor” is the opening p ...

182 Poetry for Students Author Biography. Henry Splawn Taylor’s knowledge of rural life and the natural world is rooted in his o ...

Volume 10 183 Poem Summary Stanza 1: The title of the poem “Landscape with Trac- tor” suggests that the composition will be desc ...

184 Poetry for Students the third line underscore the breathlessness of the speaker, and his description of the doctors turning ...

Volume 10 185 reader and the speaker. The poem, which reads as an attempt to come to grips with this experience, whether it was ...

186 Poetry for Students Taylor underscores the inherent tension in the speaker’s voice. This tension is underscored by the repea ...

Volume 10 187 ulty from 1968-1971. The line between fact and fic- tion is often blurred in poetry, and poets often take “poetic ...

188 Poetry for Students modern technology, not only saves labor for the speaker, but frees his mind from the details of daily wo ...

Volume 10 189 humanity; she looks like a mannequin. But the more he thinks about her, in her absence, the more human she becomes ...

190 Poetry for Students man who drives a “bushhog” to cut the grass of his three acre field. Still, his meditation on the grass ...

Volume 10 191 ily and his own interests into southern literature and its concerns. According to the writer George Gar- rett, how ...

192 Poetry for Students Ultimately, the fact that it is so difficult to de- termine the exact meter of these lines tells us even ...

Volume 10 193 well, as if to indicate his profound disagreement with his neighbors. The stanza concludes: “She was someone.” Tha ...

194 Poetry for Students explores the psychological implications in Henry Taylor’s poem and argues that Taylor uses the de- tails ...

Volume 10 195 With, say, three acres of grass bounded By road, driveway, and vegetable garden? Taylor also addresses the reader ...

The Negro Speaks of Rivers “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was the first poem published in Langston Hughes’s long writing ca- reer. ...

Volume 10 197 his father, who wanted to become a lawyer, took correspondence courses in law. Denied a chance to take the Oklahom ...

198 Poetry for Students I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its mudd ...

Volume 10 199 civilizations, and the Mississippi, the river on which several American cities were built, includ- ing St. Louis ( ...

200 Poetry for Students so ancient as to appear timeless, predating human existence, longer than human memory.” Jemie con- tinue ...