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In 1980, Glück's third collection, Descending Figure, was published. It received some criticism for its tone and subject matter: for example, the poet Greg Kuzma accused Glück of being a "child hater" for her now anthologized poem, "The Drowned Children". [34] On the whole, however, the book was well received.
To Hayakawa, the woman's body partly covered by the kimono is an allusion to the accompanying poem's "mid-autumn full moon ... hidden in the clouds". [72] The word utena puns on the homophones for pedestal [ y ] and the calyx [ z ] of a flower, a traditional metaphor for the female genitals; thus the moon climbing the utena can be read as the ...
Bloom indicates the poem is one of the very few in which Dickinson examined a current technology, and points out that its theme is the effect such a technology may have on the landscape and on people and animals. Bloom observes that the reader discovers the subject of the poem is a train by "seeing and hearing it, instead of being told directly ...
Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 The Solitary Reaper (VIII) 1803 and 1805 "Behold her, single in the field," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe (IX) 1803 "Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream"
Satyavan's father is Dyumatsena, from Sanskrit dyumat-sena, “the shining host”, which Sri Aurobindo interprets as the divine mind full of the rays of light. In the legend, the king is a blind man, exiled from his own kingdom due to certain circumstances, which in Sri Aurobindo's opinion refers to Dyumatsena's mind being temporarily exiled ...
A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme.Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line.
Buttel cites the poem to support his claim that Stevens has the Cubists' ability to see different perspectives of an object simultaneously: "One must assimilate the multiplicity here", he writes about the various bridge crossings, "just as the viewer of Duchamp's painting must assimilate the fragmentation and multiplicity of the nude descending ...
File: Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, in the Frederick C. Torrey home, c. 1913.jpg