Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 221 lier frantic cries are contrasted by his inability to speak: all he can do is puff “his lips out with his breath.” ...

222 Poetry for Students looks as though the next scene will be the large family gathered around the sturdy table sharing a meal ...

Volume 10 223 Although Robert Frost would later in his life become a farm owner, a husband and father, and a four-time winner of ...

224 Poetry for Students day everything changes. Instead of the boy and the other men coming home to a nice meal, the day quickly ...

The Phoenix “The Phoenix” concludes Howard Nemerov’s sec- ond collection of poetry, Guide to the Ruins.Its plainspoken and flat ...

226 Poetry for Students soon found themselves in need of money and Ne- merov took a job teaching English at Hamilton Col- lege i ...

Volume 10 227 the Trinity holds that God the Father and God the Son are of one substance, and many theologians ar- gue that the ...

228 Poetry for Students English for long poems, verse dramas, and epics— Renaissance sonnets, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Wordsworth ...

Volume 10 229 broadcasts on Italian state radio, and many people felt that this was a treasonous act. (Pound argued that the con ...

230 Poetry for Students merov for a lack of discipline: “too many [poems] lack the discipline of the writer’s art. Good pieces a ...

Volume 10 231 liopolis and immolate itself in the altar fire, from which the young phoenix then arose.” As well as being associa ...

232 Poetry for Students Nemerov, by combining language that alludes to the Christian tradition with the details of the story tha ...

Volume 10 233 Phoenix” first appeared) is indicative of the con- troversy that followed Nemerov throughout his ca- reer. Vivienn ...

234 Poetry for Students more myrrh over the hole. The egg-shaped lump is then just of the same weight as it was originally. Fina ...

Volume 10 235 birth, and so it has remained one of the most fa- mous and powerful stories of the ages. The story of the phoenix ...

236 Poetry for Students might say then, that Nemerov, like most poets, de- fies easy categorization. He writes about the mate- r ...

Volume 10 237 Warden, Will, Review of Guide to the Ruins,St. Louis Post- Dispatch,May 18, 1950, E22. For Further Study Bartholom ...

Glossary of Literary Terms A Abstract:Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an ad- ...

240 Poetry for Students ature was originally passed on by word of mouth, so it consisted largely of stories and events that were ...

Volume 10 241 Works of this period often mirror the qualities of works more generally associated with the label “baroque” and so ...