Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric PoetryDavid Baker, Ann Townsend An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry |
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... Whitman's mother was a devout Quaker , we may remember . Sections 5 and 6 find Whitman propelling his poem forward , making it move , as the train moves . Elegies rarely have momentum , preferring the mournful deportment of stasis ...
... Whitman's figure of The Poet . The poem is driven by Whitman's desire to find a road back from isolate grief to the social realm and to locate a method and language to enable the res- toration of the body and of the body politic , his ...
... Whitman's ferry ride occurs in less real time than the evaporating evening moments of Keats's nightingale ode . “ Crossing ” lives inside a single saturated instant of perception in which Whitman's hundred eyes take in the entire visual ...
Contents
Introduction xi | 11 |
Stanley Plumly Elegiac | 31 |
The Love Poem | 37 |
Copyright | |
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