Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
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"Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" is a meditative lyric poem by Robert Duncan that explores memory, imagination, and a recurring inner landscape as a site of spiritual and poetic revelation.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Robert Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralSymbol | meadow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely anthologized and discussed in literary criticism ⓘ |
| explores |
idea of a preexistent order of words
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process of poetic creation ⓘ relationship between language and being ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | meditative lyric ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLine | "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Robert Duncan's poetic oeuvre ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
modernist poetics
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mythic and mystical traditions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
imagery
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metaphor ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American postmodern poetry
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Black Mountain poets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
imagination
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inner landscape ⓘ memory ⓘ poetic inspiration ⓘ return and recurrence ⓘ spiritual revelation ⓘ |
| meter | non-metrical ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | unrhymed ⓘ |
| setting |
imagined meadow
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inner psychic landscape ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
courses on Black Mountain poets
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courses on contemporary American poetry ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
intersection of memory and vision
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relationship between poet and imagination ⓘ sacred space in consciousness ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
origin of the poem
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source of poetic language ⓘ spiritual refuge ⓘ |
| tone |
contemplative
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reverent ⓘ |
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