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Poetry By Robert Creeley |
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“The
Mirror,” by Robert Creeley expresses some of the poet’s opinions on
mankind and what has happened as a result of our existence. In the poem,
he hints several times that he thinks all hope for the world is lost as
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The Mirror By Robert Creeley Seeing is believing. Whatever was thought or said,
these persistent, inexorable deaths
make faith as such absent,
our humanness a question,
a disgust for what we are.
Whatever the hope,
here it is lost.
Because we coveted our difference,
here is the cost.
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In
“America,” by Robert Creeley, the poet tells about how many wars and
battles have been fought in America and how our country is corrupt with
evil-doers. He is asking for America to give back the people
who were born in and died fighting for their country. |
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America By Robert Creeley America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took. Let the sun shine again on the four corners of the world you thought of first but do not own, or keep like a convenience. People are your own word, you invented that locus and term. Here, you said and say, is where we are. Give back what we are, these people you made, us, and nowhere but you to be. |
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Goodbye By Robert Creeley a sound, a light.
She stood at the window. A face.
Was it that she was looking for,
he thought. Was it that
she was looking for. He said,
turn from it, turn
from it. The pain is
not unpainful. Turn from it.
The act of her anger, of
the anger she felt then,
not turning to him.
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Analysis of "Goodbye" In the poem “Goodbye,” Robert Creeley conveys his emotions of pain and anger through simple repetition of several key words and phrases. In the beginning of the poem, there’s a woman standing in a window looking for “it”. The reader does not know what “it” is specifically, but the as the poem progresses, the reader discovers that the woman is in some sort of pain and the poet is telling her to “turn from it.” Though the poet continues to tell her to “turn from it” all throughout the poem, her anger prevents her from listening to and obeying him. In the first stanza, Creeley specifically repeats the phrase “she stood at the window.” The phrase evokes a simple, yet depressing image to the reader’s mind of a lonely woman alone at a window. In the second stanza, the poet repeats the phrase “she was looking for,” which give away the fact that the woman was looking for something while standing at the window. In the third stanza, Creeley continuously reiterates the phrase “turn from it” even more than the phrases were repeated in the first and second stanza. He also repeats the word “pain” in the same stanza. This clues us in on the fact that the woman is in some form of pain and that the poet wants her to turn away from it. We see the woman’s reaction to what the writer tells her to do in the fourth stanza where there is repetition of the word “anger”. The last line of the fourth stanza reads, “not turning to him,” which lets us know that as a result of her anger, she did not turn from the pain and to “him,” the poet. The continuous repetition of the most important phrases is the key to the format that Creeley uses to express and emphasize his and the woman’s emotions. As the poet conveys to the reader the simple scene taking place in the poem, the reader gains understanding of how the impact of certain emotions does not just have an affect on them as people, but it influences their decisions as well. |
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