The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 1438108370
- ISBN-13
- 9781438108377
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-01-01
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Author
- R. Victoria Arana
Description
... chess players in Persia calmly moving their pieces “In the shade of a spacious tree” while “invaders were burning down the City” (129), and the effects of memory, which does not “distinguish / What I saw from what I was” (136).
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