Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 41 ile, or a comparison, that will aptly describe her happiness. The first three words of the first, third, fifth, and ...

42 Poetry for Students But when the trees bough down their heads The wind is passing by. In both poems, Rossetti describes somet ...

Volume 10 43 looked for by the narrator, but accepted as a gift of nature. In the last couplet of the first stanza, however, the ...

44 Poetry for Students A final question of the poem remains: of what type of love is the narrator singing? Harrison, for one, no ...

Black Zodiac Many readers find Charles Wright’s poetry diffi- cult to understand or even inaccessible. Readers of- ten assume th ...

46 Poetry for Students Author Biography. Charles Wright was born in Hardin County, Ten- nessee, in 1935. He spent most of his ch ...

Volume 10 47 Poem Summary. Lines 1-12: The first stanza of “Black Zodiac” introduces us to the importance of memory. Memories, i ...

48 Poetry for Students easy to visualize, and the repetition of the line “The flies come back” helps paint the picture of a hot, ...

Volume 10 49 sentiment flies in the face of Socrates by claiming that there is no difference in the unexamined life and the exam ...

50 Poetry for Students garden plots, literally, but, figuratively, our homes and our beds may be cheerless and gray, as though t ...

Volume 10 51 scape.” He moves through the afternoon into evening, from oppressive heat to a late summer rain shower, philosophiz ...

52 Poetry for Students line must be strong all the way through and not fin- ish in a dying fall.” Wright resorts to art terms of ...

Volume 10 53 or freedom and restriction—may be the strongest evidence of cultural influence on Wright and his work, from the beg ...

54 Poetry for Students Romans and to endure to the Renaissance, Milton, and Tennyson. Virgil, Rome’s most important poet, wrote ...

Volume 10 55 and we understand that these masters are the mas- ters of theology as well as the masters of poetry. This stanza mu ...

56 Poetry for Students characteristic skepticism. His widely noticed poem, “The New Poem,” categorically rebuts these hopes: It ...

Volume 10 57 the second. The next line features a caesura after its second word, “stop,” and the fifth word, “wind.” All of thes ...

58 Poetry for Students the act of description with a palpable holiness by linking it with God himself—a revealed deity. Thus, fo ...

Volume 10 59 Of color, the giant of nothingness, each one And the giant ever changing, living in change. This idea of change hau ...

60 Poetry for Students ———, Wallace Stevens: The Collected Poems,Random House, 1982. Vendler, Helen, The Music of What Happens: ...