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David Baker: The Figure of Grief (January 2004)

$5.00

Elegy, David Baker suggests, typically contains two figures—the grieving poet or speaker, and the beloved departed. What happens, then, when an elegy makes use of a kind of triangulation in which death too is figured, even praised? Baker examines how Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” convey a kind of embrace of death, and, in doing so, transform and eroticize the elegiac form.

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
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Faculty Member

Baker, David

Residency

2004 – January

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