Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 141 Themes Death Death is the subject and main theme of “Fu- neral Blues.” Through the poem Auden makes a compelling s ...

142 Poetry for Students cal universe, the speaker expects little, since “noth- ing now can ever come to any good.” Style Auden p ...

Volume 10 143 from that society. Part of their goal was to disrupt poetic conventions and therefore readers’ expecta- tions in o ...

144 Poetry for Students The Ascent of F6,written with Auden’s long- time collaborator Christopher Isherwood, was a critical succ ...

Volume 10 145 mourners come. The speaker then orders the lis- teners to have “moaning” airplanes fly overhead, writing “He Is De ...

146 Poetry for Students Source: Wendy Perkins, in an essay for Poetry for Students, Gale, 2001. Jeannine Johnson In the followin ...

Volume 10 147 poet claims, there is no need to go on living, so there is no need to preserve the sun or moon or any- thing else ...

148 Poetry for Students less of his sorrow. Or perhaps he is acknowledg- ing that love, with all its anguish and all its joy, wi ...

Volume 10 149 loss back, emphasizing the loss of the speaker. The funeral messages get smaller, to the fine detail of the color ...

150 Poetry for Students For Further Study Bogan, Louise, review, in The New Yorker,February 24, 1940, p. 76. This reviewer finds ...

The Hiding Place “The Hiding Place” first appeared in the May 22 issue of The New Yorkerin 1989. The poem is not one of Graham’s ...

152 Poetry for Students Author Biography Jorie Graham was born in New York City in May of 1951. When she was just three-months o ...

Volume 10 153 Poem Summary Lines 1-6: In the opening two stanzas, Graham provides a time and a locale for the literal hiding pla ...

154 Poetry for Students Lines 11-15: In these four lines, Graham introduces an im- portant motif in the poem, the motif of langu ...

Volume 10 155 Lines 52-57: In one of the most confusing sections of the poem, Graham conflates memory, voices from out- side the ...

156 Poetry for Students actly, is the hiding place? First of all, the hiding place is, literally, the place where the characters ...

Volume 10 157 of 1968. The uprising of 1968 started with univer- sity students at the Sorbonne on May 3, 1968. There was confron ...

158 Poetry for Students discusses the various thematic possibilities of the title of Graham’s poem, ultimately suggesting that a ...

Volume 10 159 In writing about Region of Unlikeness,Helen Vendler argues that by invoking historical moments in her work, Graham ...

160 Poetry for Students Region of Unlikeness,takes its name from a pas- sage from the Confessions of St. Augustine. Throughout t ...