Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 21 neighborhood. Its denizens are hampered from drawing meaningful distinctions by a disregard to language and its pow ...

22 Poetry for Students before. Public cynicism was generally high, with the fiasco of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal ...

Volume 10 23 “Ballad of Orange and Grape” reflects her intimacy with the city’s geography and social history. East Harlem is adj ...

24 Poetry for Students son to Whitman, a Library Journal reviewer summed up Rukeyser’s career in a way that reflects on the mean ...

Volume 10 25 clearly identifiable, as “unmistakable” as the labels on the two drink machines in “Ballad.” But the context and th ...

26 Poetry for Students tween orange and grape could be seen as a symbol of rebellion, a gesture toward undermining the cat- egor ...

Volume 10 27 that nothing is as it seems. The poem asks, “How are we going to believe what we read and we write and we hear and ...

28 Poetry for Students ciety can move forward without set constructs, set meanings for words, ideas and acts. The hot dog man sh ...

Volume 10 29 for the unevenness of Rukeyser’s reputation since her death; she made poetry seem too easy. A poem like “Ballad of ...

30 Poetry for Students goes out for a hot dog only after the day’s work is done, this is a person who appreciates order and worr ...

Volume 10 31 include discussions of Rukeyser’s poetry and tributes to her as a woman and artist. Kertesz, Louise, The Poetic Vis ...

A Birthday While nearly all of Christina Rossetti’s other love poems focus on themes of loss and isolation, “A Birthday,” which ...

Volume 10 33 and attention to detail, sensuousness, and a concern for symbolism. Author Biography. Rossetti was born in London, ...

34 Poetry for Students Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes;^10 Carve it in doves and pomegranate ...

Volume 10 35 it seems to her that love has brought new life, or made her “reborn.” Themes. Love and Passion “A Birthday” celebra ...

36 Poetry for Students Her appreciation for nature, one aspect of this sense, is clear in the first stanza. In the second stanza ...

Volume 10 37 learning about vivisection, the practice of dissect- ing living animals for physiological research, she became an a ...

38 Poetry for Students Criticism. Katrinka Moore Katrinka Moore teaches writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, ...

Volume 10 39 flict between private and public. They arrive at very different interpretations. So convincing is the description o ...

40 Poetry for Students are self-enclosed, or end at the close of a phrase or sentence. Line sixteen is different from the other ...