The Death of Cock Robin

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The Death of Cock Robin is a long, darkly comic narrative poem by W. D. Snodgrass that reimagines the traditional nursery rhyme as a complex meditation on violence, guilt, and American culture.

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instanceOf narrative poem
poem
author W. D. Snodgrass NERFINISHED
authorNationality American
authorOf W. D. Snodgrass NERFINISHED
basedOn Cock Robin nursery rhyme NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores psychological guilt
social violence in America
genre dark comedy
narrative poetry
hasAuthor William De Witt Snodgrass NERFINISHED
language English
literaryForm long poem
literaryMovement postwar American poetry
reimagines traditional nursery rhyme
subject murder of Cock Robin NERFINISHED
theme American culture
crime and punishment
death
guilt
violence
tone darkly comic
uses allusion to children’s verse
irony
satire

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W. D. Snodgrass notableWork The Death of Cock Robin