The Dream Songs
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The Dream Songs is a landmark sequence of idiosyncratic, deeply personal poems by John Berryman that helped define the confessional poetry movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dream Songs canonical | 4 |
| 77 Dream Songs | 3 |
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Target entity: The Dream Songs Context triple: [Confessional poetry, hasKeyWork, The Dream Songs]
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is a landmark 1924 poetry collection by Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, renowned for its passionate exploration of love, sensuality, and heartbreak.
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The Cantos
The Cantos is Ezra Pound’s long, unfinished modernist epic poem that weaves together history, politics, economics, and literature in a highly allusive, fragmented style.
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The Poet
"The Poet" is a seminal essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores the nature, role, and visionary power of the poet in society and in expressing universal truths.
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The Poet
The Poet is a reflective, storytelling character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn," representing the voice of the poet among the gathered guests.
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E.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending mystical symbolism with meditations on aging, history, and spiritual transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Dream Songs Target entity description: The Dream Songs is a landmark sequence of idiosyncratic, deeply personal poems by John Berryman that helped define the confessional poetry movement.
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A.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is a landmark 1924 poetry collection by Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, renowned for its passionate exploration of love, sensuality, and heartbreak.
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B.
The Cantos
The Cantos is Ezra Pound’s long, unfinished modernist epic poem that weaves together history, politics, economics, and literature in a highly allusive, fragmented style.
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C.
The Poet
"The Poet" is a seminal essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores the nature, role, and visionary power of the poet in society and in expressing universal truths.
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D.
The Poet
The Poet is a reflective, storytelling character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn," representing the voice of the poet among the gathered guests.
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E.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending mystical symbolism with meditations on aging, history, and spiritual transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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long poem sequence ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | John Berryman ⓘ |
| awarded |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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surface form:
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for 77 Dream Songs)
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| containsCharacter | Mr Bones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReputation | landmark of 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| form | sequence of short poems ⓘ |
| genre |
confessional poetry
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lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Dream Songs
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
77 Dream Songs
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
guilt
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religious doubt ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| helpedDefine | confessional poetry movement ⓘ |
| influenced |
American lyric poetry
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later confessional poets ⓘ |
| isExpansionOf |
The Dream Songs
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
77 Dream Songs
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| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Henry ⓘ |
| meter | highly irregular ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deeply personal subject matter
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idiosyncratic language ⓘ innovative prosody ⓘ shifts in diction and register ⓘ use of alter ego Henry ⓘ |
| numberOfPoems | 385 ⓘ |
| originalPublicationForm | two separate volumes ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodEnd | 1968 ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodStart | 1964 ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux ⓘ |
| style |
allusive
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colloquial ⓘ elliptical ⓘ multivoiced ⓘ |
| subject |
alcoholism
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art and poetry ⓘ death ⓘ friendship ⓘ grief ⓘ identity ⓘ love and sexuality ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| timePeriod | postwar American literature ⓘ |
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