The Poetic "I"
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The Poetic "I"

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  1. 166 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Poetic "I"

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About this book

One should never assume that the narrator in a poem is expressing views identical to the author's. "For words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within, " wrote Tennyson. Autobiographical elements tend to be so mixed in with the fictional that lines blur.Bazyn's revolving carousel of poetic "I's" includes an egotist who makes fun of his arrogance; a baby confused by his wobbly surroundings; the simple joys of a childhood Christmas; youth's dilemma at forging a vocation; the peculiar circumstances surrounding one's first love; reminiscences of a recent class reunion; a period of self-examination following the death of a neighbor; anxiously awaiting a monogrammed invitation; lessons gleaned from closely inspecting nature; exhibiting faith in a secular metropolis; dreaming of a technician's utopia; and the frailty and ragged edges of old age.The narrator is, by turns, nostalgic, uneasy, speculative, forlorn, elated, discombobulated--representing, as he does, different stages of life, personality types, and psychological moods. Bazyn's language can be mysterious, his sentences follow a winding course, his stanzas end abruptly. Bewitching black-and-white photos accent and enhance each poem's metaphors. As you gaze into this verbal/visual mirror, likenesses of the hidden self emerge and take on unexpected shapes.

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Information

Publisher
Resource Publications
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781666732221, 9781666725650
eBook ISBN
9781666725667
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Incurvatus in se
  5. i
  6. A Slumbering Cradle
  7. The Carousel
  8. The Christmas Tree
  9. Glitter, Glitter
  10. Adolescence
  11. My Brother
  12. i remember . . . Vietnam
  13. Old Glory
  14. The Annual New Year’s Party
  15. Remembering Names
  16. A Class Reunion
  17. From My Office in the Flatiron
  18. False Starts
  19. The Laughing Gull
  20. To Any Future Biographer
  21. My Kitchen Reading Table
  22. There Was a Boom
  23. The Realist, or the Cynic
  24. A Neighbor Died Last Evening
  25. After Reading Kenneth Rexroth
  26. If I Could Play a Scalar Instrument
  27. The Broken Circle
  28. When First We Met
  29. Awake, Sweet William!
  30. Envy
  31. The Ladder
  32. The Introspective Candle
  33. The Faithful But Haughty Mirror
  34. A Hard Night’s Labor
  35. The Broken Vase
  36. The Shy and the Vulnerable
  37. Self-Siege
  38. I’ve a Tenuous Hold
  39. The Duke of Anarchy
  40. Down
  41. Guilt
  42. Secular City
  43. I Confess to . . .
  44. Psalm 42
  45. I Present My Heart:
  46. Not I, But Christ
  47. I Stand by the Door
  48. I Said . . .
  49. A Rainbow—Slain
  50. Flipping Ripe Avocados
  51. Two-Stepping with Snowflakes
  52. Chief Keeper of the Parrots
  53. Another World
  54. Technical Profundities
  55. Out of Favor
  56. In the Winter of My Prime
  57. In Old Age
  58. Listing of Photographs
  59. Works Cited